Transition...

The music industry has surely seen quite a bit of changes over the years. I notice this not because I consider myself to be older, but because the language over the years has changed entirely in songs which've been put out over the years. So many cuss words are said and not even bleeped out anymore in songs. Meanwhile it's not expected that our children cuss in their daily life. We pressure our own and others children to not cuss and explain how often people could alter those words but in our mind even when substitute words are used, our minds are set to process the more vulgar words.
All day I've listened to the early 90's and listening to actual words which were put in the dictionary not because of trends being used in these songs and the beautiful sounds in which they give off is so much different than what today's music is. There were (still are) so many great songs without negative vibes from the early 90's and to have transitioned into the 2000's, it's like we have changed so drastically that I can't even feel good about so much music that's been put out in the recent day and age.
It makes you wonder if people who are growing up in this day and age are going to be capable of keeping real love alive instead of thinking they're in love but in reality it's music that's brainwashed their thought process. Sex, drugs, inappropriate gestures, and so many inappropriate words are spoken in our school system now a days. We pray our children won't get hung up in the thrills that we once did, but our thrills as a child wasn't nearly as extreme as what it is now. We thought extreme while growing up was eating all of our Halloween candy while our parents weren't looking, and feeding the dogs the dinner we didn't want under the table. There was the occasional misfit who chose to try a cigarette and do whatever possible to cover up that smell before our parents got home, but that was the largest extreme growing up, for me at least.
Now their is so much more a child gets into... It's scary that as you raise your child you pray that your own child doesn't have sex at 11 or 12 or even younger anymore, experimenting with drugs, and getting the wrong idea when they go to school, about how important it is to be there.
As the years get closer for many differences to impact Claire's life immediately I can't help but wonder how it's going to be. I worry so much that her release (the same as mine, music) doesn't help take the purity away from her. Even if it's a smooth talking boy who has not really learned how to treat a woman by his parents, or grandparents, but by his lack of being raised properly. So much crazy stuff has happened to the kids, more now than ever before. The loss of their parents, or members of their family being pedophiles, you just can't trust people anymore.
I still remember when Claire was in Kindergarten and one of the classmates told Claire she had gotten into trouble by her brother and then her parents punishing her. The brother was some sicko who had sick intentions and when the girl went to tell her parents they didn't do anything about it nor did they believe her. I can't wrap my head around how some parents raise their children and say nothing about it. Child services got involved because she did turn it in, but it doesn't for one second make the situation for that little girl any better. This kind of thing should never ever happen.
So much has changed since I was growing up... Yeah I know it's been several years, but things shouldn't have changed the way they have. It makes me wonder where this started, and why!? I think to myself a lot of what a child's release is, is where these problems come from. So much has changed and to have a starting point for this, makes it a very long process, but I'm sure it'd be worth the investigation. But for now I'm going to continue to raise my child in a way that many children need to be raised. I'll do whatever I need to so that she's not doing stupid things which are extremely detrimental later for her.
All I can do is pray that it works out as she gets older.