A Few Things that Drive Me Nuts Every Single Week
Sept 17, 2022
Call me an old soul, but… I think kids deserve better
Children are overwhelmingly forced into unhealthy behaviors by way of poorly designed societal structures invading their personal privacy, sense of innocence, and feelings of abundant love unconditional. I’m looking at the following and more here.. (News, social media, commercials, advertising, adverts, colors, marketing messages, parental messaging, etc.)
Every hour of every day children are exposed to marketing messages ploying to exploit own hopes and dreams, fears and aspirations, taking advantage of their greatest senses of taste, sound, smell, and sight in hopes to provoke and promote their opinions towards purchasing behavior for themselves and their parents or guardians.
One recent study concluded that some kids are exposed to 500+ marketed brands per day. Do we really have any idea what we’ve been exposed to? Do we consider the impacts of those messages, both direct and indirect?
Yes, the candy placed at kids’ eye level at the supermarket but also the cartoon commercials, highly pressured toy industry and perfectionistic expectations placed on them by their greater culture.
So too is the problematic promiscuous ad placed along the interstate where your is involuntarily exposed to something you perhaps didn’t intend.
So too are the problematic messages pushed to young audiences about their bodies from celebrity media, music, and of course social media and television.
Kids are consistently fed ultra-processed foods compromising their immune systems, their mental, physical, and emotional health.
From breakfast, lunch, and dinner and every snack in-between our kids are inundated with food products instead of food, foodstuffs stuffed with artificial ingredients and environmental toxins, devoid of authentic nutrition as their bodies and continue to degrade from their fullest potential.
Instead, we medicate the problems we’ve created.
We turn a blind eye instead of facing our mistakes when it comes to how we raise children in our society.
Today, children are born with chemicals running through their bloodstream that our ancestors were never ever exposed to.
Today, children are developing chronic disease, metabolic disorders, neurological and endocrine issues much more and much earlier in life than we’d like to admit.
Unfortunately, parents feel misplaced shame and guilt with every complication you can imagine, thus… they isolate themselves and suffer alone, forcing themselves to take on unprecedented challenges alone in fear of someone (anyone) ever speaking a word of truth on the situation or seeking to help by providing insight and advice.
“How dare you tell me how to raise my kids?” we often think inside our broken minds. Generations back, we accepted the humbling truth that it takes a village to raise a child. But nowadays, we live our lives broken and displaced, fractured and forgo the opportunities of individual families strengthened through community and commune communication.
We can’t do it alone and it’s a real shame that so many of us walk in such deep fear of letting someone else into our lives that we make it that much worse for ourselves by remining alone. Our children deserve better. Our own hearts and minds deserve better. We were designed for more than this.
That’s my breath of release for today. We still move forward, we still strive onward despite the pain and angst. If you have an opinion, share it.
If you have a tear to shed, then shed it. If you feel indignation rising up, then feed it and fuel it to promote change inside your soul and spirit and within the life you live every day.
We are better together than we could ever be against or apart. Consider the chance to humble yourself and walk with faith and trust in your perspective today in all of who you meet and speak with – including yourself and your creator.
Love you fam,
Healing begins when we take the time to open ourselves and take action together.