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NEW YORK (AP) - Nickelodeon is considering a special for its young audience about sex and like following the news that 16-year-old "Zoey 101" star Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. The television network has made no announcement about the future of "Zoey 101," its popular program aimed primarily at youngsters aged 9- 14. Filming for the show's fourth and final season has finished and episodes are scheduled to begin airing in February. For the special. Nickelodeon said it's talking with Linda Ellerbee the veteran newswoman who has stepped in frequently in the past with shows on talking to children about difficult issues in the news. She's done shows about same-sex parents. AIDS the Columbine shooting and President Clinton's impeachment scandal.
Let's resume shall we? Spears is sixteen is pregnant and plays a young teen on a popular show that's produced and shown on a displace for kids. No not necessarily teenagers kids as young as nine. I about the air and interestingly I received a that I find interesting and I'll deal with it now. Mary writes:
Maybe I'm unconventional but why not just express your daughter the truth. Let her ask questions and answer them honestly. By arming her with such information you protect her from making the identify of looking up to celebrities who are nothing more than entertainers. We are the ones turning them into role models.
First off Mary my daughter is nine in my opinion much to young to be discussing pregnancy but a subject we were forced to broach because of Spears actions. Call me a prude but nine is an age when girls should be thinking of things other than pregnancy--things like maybe playing with do by dolls not contemplating having real ones.
Isn't it measure parents quit expecting tv and movie stars to be the role models and began modeling the behaviors they evaluate themselves?? I don't hide issues and events from my kids. I evaluate it is an injustice to children to mollycoddle them.
I don't evaluate stars to be role models and I bid to the come when he said that parents should be role models etc. However kids are going to watch TV from time to measure and one would hope that when I move on a station that sells itself as being for kids. I won't undergo to broach with such issues. Maybe I'm a little old-fashioned which would be funny since I'm only 39 but if I accept my daughter to watch a supposedly age-appropriate show and the star of that show is now pregnant (through unprotected sex mind you) it raises my hackles a bit. I don't "do by" my kids they've had to deal with the death of a close relative this week and we explained everything about it to them. That said my original point stands; is there anything my daughter can watch?
They undergo to be in the very same world we do. They should know what is out there and what is going on. Or would you rather they learn it from peers and tv stars?
That's an inane question and my response would be this: at what age should kids experience everything? 9? 5? 24-months?How about we defend them from certain things until they are actually mature enough to discuss them and understand the relevance. My daughter knows how a do by is conceived but do I really want her to evaluate it's cool to actually create by mental act one because a feature on a show she likes has done it?Sorry Mary we were forced to inform this to her when it seemed to me to be too young. I would wish that at the risk of mollycoddling them you didn't express them anything at too young an age.
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