Sunday, December 6, 2009

Parents being over protective?

In reading about how controversial of a book Harry Potter is and checking out a previous blog about the most controversial books over the times I'm shocked as to what's considered controversial over the times. I personally think that our times have become so modern to the extent of things not shaking us up and bothering us the way they used to. Think back to olden days when a man and woman weren't seen to sleep in the same bed or live together until they're married now couples can be found living together in high school. A man and woman used to have to dance a certain amount of space apart. Now look at dancing go to the club and you'll wish people still danced far apart after what you see in there. I know that can be of thanks to Hip Hop music but even African American dancing has changed from footwork to now for lack of better word "booty shaking" and grinding. It seems like it used to be just more risqué and sexy for the times now it's just plain sex. Why I'm saying all this is because boundaries are meant to be pushed and rules are meant to be broken but what happens when you push so far that it's like what else can you do? Think of things like the music industry, dancing, drugs, teen pregnancy, inner racial dating, and homosexuality. Other than congress and a few uptight people in America everyone else has just forgotten about these issues they are accepted now well maybe not accepted but at least ignored by the discriminating people who still uphold mean views on these topics people just kind of look away or they accept it. So I think by finding the book Harry Potter controversial maybe it's just an attention ploy to try to control something that society already knows it has lost control over, the curiosity of today's youth

I found a cool article by someone who decides to point out how parents and teachers can use The Harry Potter books as an advantage to the children's desire to learn. I thought she had some great points

http://childrensbooks.about.com/cs/censorship/a/banharry.htm

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