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In a classroom, a group of eighth graders dressed in skinny jeans, shrunken cardigans and obscure indie rock band tees gather together. Their teacher flips open her laptop to take notes.
Marriage and unions may look different today than they did even a decade ago, but some things never change.
It's music to my ears when Sophie asks, "Do we have any Shark Tanks taped?" This kid knows more about sales, profits, balance sheets and corporate valuations than I could ever have dreamed she would at this age.
It seems like every time I turn on the television there is a new ridiculous reality show. The far-fetched idea of reality for entertainment makes me really question the intelligence of my generation.
But criticism aside -- and disagreeing with some, come on, those girls had jobs -- the true draw of "The Hills" was its ability to capture friendship in all its doom and glory.
Leah launches into her Minnie Mouse squeaky cry thing and is "really sorry" ... Then, Dr. Drew says something that goes against everything we learned: "Cheating is not a fatal blow to a relationship, Corey."
Just when you thought they were gone, the teen moms pop up faster than two lines on a pregnancy test. How's life been since the show wrapped? Are the ladies mentally stable? Are their babies well-adjusted? And more importantly, what color is their hair?
When Leah heads to drop the twins off with Corey, she's about two sobs away from full-blown ugly cry. It'll be her first night alone, and the loneliness hits her like a ton of slutty bricks. (Sold exclusively at Home-Wrecking Depot.)
To bathe her little girls, Leah has to climb down to the basement trough a trap door, kill spiders that probably eat children, turn on cold tap water that flows downfrom a spout in the ceiling ... and worst of all, the tub is mustard yellow.
There's another voice you must add to 16 & Pregnant: That of the 16 year-old girl who is pregnant and chooses to have an abortion.
For far too long, we have shirked our responsibilities as adults and allowed the television to take the reins.
I wonder what my life would have been like had Teen Mom been popular when I had my son at age fourteen. I wonder if the stares would have lasted as long or if the shame would have moved inside of my heart where it lived for years.
Perhaps, by providing a glance into the not-so-glamorous lives of teen mothers, Teen Moms actually serves to dissuade our girls from entering motherhood at a tender young age.
Is a family's boho lifestyle indicative of an overall flakiness? Or is it just, well, what it is? I mean, whole cultures have thrived as nomads.
Why is it acceptable for a woman to hit a man when the reverse is widely considered abhorrent? Two TV shows this week have me asking if a woman hitting a man is art or abuse.
Tina Fey has become an incomparable role model for today's young women, intentional or not. How has she won us over? What is she teaching us? Why can't we Millennials get enough of her? Tina, we bow down to you.
