Whatever happened to parents in popular culture?

One of my favorite saying is--"It takes a village, to absolve me of the responsibility to raise my own children."

I have been watching too much television lately. As a result, I have noticed how children and parents are portrayed. When did parents become completely ineffective in the media? My favorite examples are the Mirena commercials and a luncheon meat commercial.

In the Mirena commercial(the African American version), a mom is trying to remember if she has taken her birth control pill and to decide if she would like another child. Meanwhile her two current children crash the shopping cart into the watermelon display while unsupervised in the grocery store, drop water balloons from the balcony while unsupervised at home, take the jelly beans that their father is eating one after the other while not supervising them in the yard, and pulling the dogs fur while they bath it unsupervised. Trust me the white version of this commercial is not any better.

Or let's look at the luncheon meat commercial where in the mother's and father's fantasy, it is a lovely Thanksgiving dinner with fine china and well behaved children. In reality it is a screaming scene of children throwing food and helpless parents eating sandwiches.

News flash--Mirena parents, you do not need any more children until you learn how to supervise and raise the ones you have.

Luncheon meat people, put down the sandwich and discipline your children.

Thank God, I have been spending a lot of time speaking at high schools to very responsible young people. They are focused on protecting life and achieving goals that are measured in units of intelligence and compassion. Their parents are involved in their lives.

If only the popular culture would take a moment to look at real children and parents, and stop trying to convince us that it everyone's responsibility to raise our children except ours.

Oh How I Miss the Press from the Bush Days

Oh how I miss the press of the Bush years. Oh how I miss the daily body counts from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Oh how I miss the daily updates on the price of gasoline.

Apparently, the press only is passionate about these issues when the President is a Republican.

So let me do their job for them. Since President Obama took office 1,549* American heroes have been killed. Funny how my neighbor who always had the body count listed on a sign on her doorstep, updated daily, addressed to President Bush, seems to have lost that sign.

Just since 2009, the price of gasoline on the East coast has risen over $1.50 per gallon, despite the fact that the price of crude oil has not followed the same rate of growth.** Where are the reports on how much oil money is donated to the Democrat party in general, to Obama's campaign specifically. Interesting how no one mentions that the oil industry has always been more generous to Democrat politicians.

The press regaled us with pictures of our fallen heroes being unloaded from planes at Dover AFB, reminded us of each military suicide. Where is the outrage with these tragedies?

I wish for a world of fairness and impartiality. I guess these really aren't tragedies to the left, just useful tools.

*icasualties.org
**U S Energy Information Administration