Look at any teenage girls room, what do you see on the walls? Or a little boy, what’s cooler than Spiderman shoes? Everyone has a role model, someone they look up to, or someone they want to be just like when their older. But what really happens?
Teenagers change their look all the time because celebrities do, like the “Rihanna cut” or “Pauly-D hair”. Not just teenagers, im sure everyone has seen a little boy jump off the couch and pretend they had spider powers. A lot of people don’t realize it, but celebrities or other role models have a lot of power over kids, and it actually happens, my little cousin started eating carrots because in one of her interviews, Miley Cyrus said she loved carrots.
Parents try to protect their kids by putting on safe TV channels such as Family, or Disney Channel all day long. Soon, their kids walls are covered with posters of High School Musical, Hannah Montana or Justin bieber, which seems fine, but before you know it, Vanessa Hudgens has revealing pictures of herself all over the internet and Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant at the age of 16.
In my opinion, I personally think that regardless of if the role model is good or bad, that kids, or anyone else should have role models, which doesn’t mean that kids shouldn’t look up to anybody, it just means that nobody should want to be exactly like someone else.
~~Ilayda G.~~