Oh Be Careful

I have just about finished reading an excellent book called 'Consuming Innonence'. I wish every parent would read it. The book is all about the effect on children by tv, movies, marketing, toys, brands, clothing, books, etc etc... It's one of those books where I am constantly just saying, "YES - I agree!" The author isn't Christian - in fact, I get the impression that she possibly had a little Christian or Catholic education when she was younger and it was or has become horribly distorted but despite that she is really really onto it when it comes to keeping your kids away from or teaching about the influences of the media.
Take clothes for example - what perverted and distorted people think that young girls should wear sexy clothes? - skirts, boots & tops that say "Hey look at me and what I have to offer"!!!???
She has a chapter about Disney - how parents don't read to and often don't even know the original fairytales but just believe that how Disney has portrayed them must be the correct way.

Oh - there are too many things in the book for me to say how good they are. I just wanted to say it's great.

The kids have been singing "Oh be careful little eyes..." at Sunday School quite a bit recently and it's such a great song to sing at least once a day. Because when we forget or we get too tired or we let things slip ... that's when we begin to allow things (tv, books, influences etc) that we know in the back of our mind are NOT good.

That's my bit for the day. Now back to wiping multiple snotty noses ... we have colds in our house at the moment. There's going to be lots of garlic in our dinner tonight :)