The Age of Innocence

CamMad is entering a wonderful age, the age of innocence. Unfortunately society will (hopefully slowly) tear down this innocence. I see it everyday at work teenagers trying to act like adults. pre-teens acting like older teenager, children trying to act like pre-teens and teenagers. Television, radio, the Internet are making things cool that are out of age-groups thus accelerating the growing up process. A good example would be during family tv time (Miss Spider's Sunny Patch and Little Bear) we saw an ad in between shows that highlighted shows on Nickelodeon like SpongeBob Squarepants and Fairly OddParents. These shows in my humble opinion should be geared more for the pre-teen/teen age group rather than the pre-school/primary school age group.

We are now having to answer/justify why Child1 doesn't get to watch SpongeBob even though television ads glorify the dude in yellow and Xmas presents that are intended to educate and entertain for this age group include the dude in yellow. I'm not sure how much longer we can provide good answers other than "Because, I'm the parent!" I will say that I treasure this age of innocence and I do not look forward to the age of hormones!