Celebrity vs. Parent Infuence

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Parents influence their children with their actions and lifestyle as much as celebrities do. Being a parent, I see first-hand on how I influence my child’s growth. When I get mad, I storm off with an attitude and I see my son doing the same thing when he is put in a similar situation. We as parents want our children to be okay with being taken advantage of in the world. We tell them to not get mad and that it will be okay when we know we have been through that situation before and it was not okay, where on the other hand you have a rapper singing about not letting anyone hurt him because he has a gun. We expect our children to come out of the womb knowing the difference between right and wrong but contradict ourselves right in front of them. We tell them not to smoke and drink while we are sitting on the patio smoking whereas the celebrity is saying how he got drunk and high and it was fun. Children are going to follow what they know and once they get used to doing things a certain way, it is hard for them to change that. I cannot tell my son that he is not to drink and drive and he just saw mommy drink a glass of wine. When the celebrity get on television and sing about how the world was more friendly when he drank that whiskey, that child is going to sit in front of that television and actually consider what that celebrity just
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