Parenting in a Celebrity-Drive Society.
Apparently teenagers have tossed wearing the traditional high school ring as a sign of love and commitment in exchange for getting the keys to their private, online lives: Passwords. (Photo credit aimgram.com) The New York Times reported that teens are now swapping passwords to Facebook and other social networking sites as a sign of [...]
The Golden Globes kicked off the 2012 Awards Season for the already accolade-ridden Hollywood crowd. But what most of us look forward to in watching the industry pat itself on the back each year are the fashions and the unpredictability of the live broadcasts; fumbling of lines or some wardrobe or teleprompter malfunctions add a little [...]
In honor of the upcoming film, “Breaking Dawn – Twilight Saga Part 1,” I thought I’d share my parenting fail in helping to create the frenzy around this franchise. Well, it’s not exactly me but my teenager. You may recall reading how she persisted until she got Robert Pattinson to mail a personalized autographed photo of [...]
If you’ve had ambivalent feelings about Marilyn Monroe’s iconic status in our celebrity-driven society, then My Week with Marilyn will cement them one way or the other; you’ll either understand her much-publicized crumbling personality, or you will develop even more contradictory emotions about the real person behind the blond bombshell. My Week with Marilyn directed [...]
A survey by the Girl Scout Research Institute titled, Real To Me, shows reality TV influences girls’ outlook about their image and how they maintain relationships. On the negative side the survey found: 1. Girls have increased girl drama (gosh, we don’t need anymore of this!) by being more gossipy, 2. Competition with each other [...]
