An editorial-format of the author's perspective of young children in this generation.

I get extremely annoyed when I see my little sister, only age 12, talking to her "boyfriend" on the phone. I hate to see her friends dressed like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. I hate the excessive glitter eye shadow make-up that they all wear. I hate to see elementary boys all "thugged out" and "pimping." I surf the internet and see personal webpages created by these kids with a bunch of web-cam pictures posted. Their …

…It is the parents' money that buy their kids' clothing. Why do they allow their kids to purchase such inappropriate [trashy] clothing for their age? If no one realizes the changes that kids are going through quite early on in childhood, we're going to have a bunch of young boys and girls going out to the movies or wherever by themselves, wearing 'skanky' clothing with a face full of glitter--of course with their parent's transportation.