Parenting-Shmarenting I want to be a rock star

It seems to me that everytime I see a parent parenting,...I always thinks...hmmm...I would do X or Y differently. I wonder if they think the same thing or if I am simply overly judgmental??? I wonder if when I have kids, Trtl will think...oh man that Sqrl should invest in some kind of procreation-stoppers, b/c her parenting is just rotten!

Ugh......my computer is full of cosmo girl and Hannah Montana pop-ups. SqrlLvr is doing a paper on the tween market, and it is really interesting. The idea is that back in the day of the Spice Girls, strong girls was the media message--i.e. girl power--if you work hard you can achieve your dreams. Now though, its not just strong girls, it's famous girls...e.g. girls who are powerful are those that become so through fame, like being an actress or a singer. So now the marketing suggests...you too could become a famous american idol. he of course says it much better, but it is really interesting to me. Dreams are now being based on reaching a goal where talent or "who you know" becomes the line of demarcation and not hardwork.
My nieces can obviously become whatever they want, in the realm of doctor lawyer, teacher, mechanic (which would be nice), but are parents now telling their kids that they can be rock stars, or famous actresses, b/c if that is the case, it seems to me that there is much less likelihood of that, and what does that do to a child's dreams, when she realizes that her dreams aren't really reasonable. This seems different than the astronaut career of my childhood which while unlikely was possible provided genetic mutations in my eyes didn't occur, I mean monkeys had gone to space, and if I was willing to put in lots of time, I could be the first Sqrl there. I of course was not willing to put in the time, and thus ended that dream. An actress or rockstar, or basketball player on the other hand, seems much less in reach and much much more likely to escape the grasp of even the hardest working person if they lack the talent--AND I DO DAMN THEM!!