Equality, abuse and the sexualisation of children

What have we done to our children, that they no longer are allowed to be children?  Cossetted, protected, given everything, encouraged to gow up and mature so quickly. Yet their innocence, rather than being in the majority taken by predators, is corrupted  in the home  by abusive adults then by the abuses of disallowing their childhood by subtle means.

The TV, internet, gaming, their music idols and networking allows them a presentation of a pseudo adult world that belittles any childish existence and robs it of its validity.

This is not surprising as childish behaviour in adults is seen perhaps as the lowest form of humor, or as a weakness or something to belittle.  We do not respect the child in ourselves so how can we truly respect our children and their childhood.  Oh yes we throw up legal protection and talk about safeguarding children, but this is not from a love of childhood but a fear of ourselves.

We appear to save the children, and on the other hand present them with opportunities to abandon their child hood as quickly as they can.  That can’t be so I hear you cry, but if the top games on the X box are: Grand Theft Auto, Halo and various Star Wars battle adventures, then these are not childish play but presentations of cold unfeeling violence, theft, hatred, and any other vice you care to name.  It is as subtle a brainwashing as the way “problems” in maths were presented in early twentieth century text books that belittled people of non european racial backgrounds or others in the lower socio economic order.

Its both girls and boys who are presented with early sexualisation , a drive for personal gratification and the subtleties of the pursuit of violence.  My teenage son might deny all this and say it doesn’t effect him.  No not consciously but what of the unconscious.

As a hypnotherapist, I have become even more aware of the way alpha brainwaves are induced in our society and how they are used to create trance states in which our unconscious minds can be influenced.

What of my daughters, whose mothers and grandmothers struggled to create a more equitable place in the world for them and where by the age of 13 that place is being offered in a totally remolded form.

We need to re respect children and  childhood, , we need to know it and understand it in ourselves, my worry is for many of us it was so traumatic we are trying to remove it everywhere we find it. There is so much more to say on this subject.

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