Modern media never failed to amuse us. After a year of going Gaga the world is hit by the storm of Bieber. Justin Bieber a teenage boy who just turned 16 with a voice hardly broken at all has raided the world with his cheeky smile, capturing the hearts of teenage girls.
The power of teenage girls is scary…really scary. From the wrath of “Twilight” to Justin Bieber, it just devoured and demolished everything on its way. In the case of Bieber, it happened last November in New York, and happened again yesterday in Sydney. Functions were cancelled because the crowd eventually proved to be too dangerous for the function to even start.
However what shocked me was the fact that parents were allowing their daughters of age 13 or so to go the city and sleep in public places overnight for their star chasing. Now we’d all been teenagers, but is the way teenagers, in this case teenage girls, behaving going to far? They are endangering themselves in the city, and some from interstate, to get a prime position for a function to be held 12 hours or so later. They even refused to listen to security’s advice to move back to the safe zone and broke into chaos. Now where are the parents of these teenage girls? Were they just happily having beacon and egg at home watching TV to see whether their 13-year-old daughters managed to get a front row seat? In a city where you can’t drink before 18 and can’t drive before 16, it is really appalling that 13 year girls were allowed to sleep in public places unsupervised overnight when it is supposed to be a school day. What is wrong with the parents of these girls?
Some advocates talk about can’t discipline our kids because that will make them dumb or hurt their pride when they grow up. So is this the result we got from discipline free parenting in this country? Or nowadays a lot of parents just don’t know how to teach or educate their kids about common sense?
I was at the Fox Studios enjoying a nice warm afternoon in a restaurant with a few other customers yesterday. There were some families there and of course you will expect to have screaming babies. I personally don’t like babies in restaurants but then they are too small to know anything and their parents do need to eat. Then in came a group with two 5-year-old girls. The moment they walked in, the girls started running around spitting on tables while their snobbish parents and friends were criticising seat arrangements in the restaurant. During the whole process they did not even attempt to stop the kids from spitting around. Customers around were appalled by what the kids were doing. One of the waitresses asked the kids to stop and the parents immediately shot her a stare. Eventually the restaurant moved tables around to accommodate them. Then they started criticising the menu while the mother called the girls to the table. Instead of asking them not to do that again, she praised the cuteness for their behaviours and wiped the remaining saliva around their lips. The poor waiting staff had to go around cleaning up tables again while enduring the criticisms from their parents. During the whole process there were no words of apologies for the girls behaviours. Instead the girls were praised for their behaviours.
I don’t know what these girls will grow up to be but judging from their parents, they will probably provide new force for the outrageous girl power we witnessed from the Bieber madness these two days. Whether they are doing the right thing, I don’t think their parents give a damn for whatever they are doing they will always be praised.
I don’t want to sound too biased about the whole thing but when we are living in a society with more and more teenage problems, who should be responsible? In my opinion it’s nobody else but the parents. If the Government or academics continue to call for non-disciplining of kids and regard it as bullying behaviours or irresponsible parenting, then do not complain about all the teenage problems we are having now. I am not saying that we should turn a blind eye to child abuse. In fact I am completely against it, but nowadays it seems that we are basically ruling by exception instead of for the good of the general mass.
