I saw a most horrific sight today when I dropped off my daughter at school this morning (and just for the record, I'm not one of those helicopter parents; we live across the street and I work from home so it's pretty convenient). Standing in front of a line outside a classroom was a first or second grade girl with a T-shirt proclaiming in huge lettering:
"ENOUGH ABOUT YOU LET'S TALK ABOUT ME!"
It made me throw up a little in the back of my throat. If my daughter wanted a shirt like that I would buy it just so I could burn it in front of her while casually explaining that, indeed, it's not all about her after all. Are we as a society so desperate to build up our children's self-esteem that we clad them so? How pathetic.
I want my kids to know that helping others, listening to others and thinking about others can be more rewarding than being helped, listened to, or thought of. My daughter is at the age where she should start being less selfish and think outside herself more and more. Giving her a shirt that encourages the opposite is deplorable.
It's going to be an uphill battle; me against society and the media. Last week I went to Corvallis and watched my beloved Beavers lose in OT to FCS Sac State. When I told my daughter that the Beavers lost she asked me if they got a trophy.
Sigh.
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