Poor Kermit! He was cast aside by Miss Piggy last year and now the beloved couple is divorced. Here he sits, crying is eyes out and alone. Miss Piggy has moved on to find something better because Kermit was just not enough for her.
Okay, okay, so that was a little overdramatic. However, there is a LOT wrong with the scenario that has been played out by our “child-friendly” puppet friends. Did I say child-friendly?
Being a child is hard enough. Many grow up in less-than-stellar home situations with less-than-ideal families. Many do not have both parents in their homes and some don’t even know one of their parents. Yes, this is the reality in America in 2016. There is nothing child-friendly about many of our children’s home lives. And this is exactly why I was appalled when they announced that Kermit and Miss Piggy were splitting up.
When are we going to allow our children to actually be children? Why do we need to push them into the very harsh realities of life and not allow them to enjoy not having them? While breakups and divorce are the norms in many households, they wreak havoc on children’s lives, sometimes to the point of no repair.
Children will always want their parents to be together or get back together – at least initially. Children need to believe there is good in this world. They need to feel safe and secure in their homes so they can become stable and properly functioning adults. So what do the Muppets have to do with this? Everything! Everything that is wrong with our families in America.
Why can’t we allow our children to have a little piece of a wholesome family in their TV viewing? Why does a good program that has been a favorite of children all over need to go the way of our throw-away society?
The Muppets could still have had problems, but they could have taught children the art (yes art) of good communication, compromise, COMMITMENT, and getting along with others in life. It seems we are going to have generations going forward that have no sense of commitment – I mean TRUE commitment, not a commitment that lasts only until something does not go your way or gets tough and you don’t want to put the work in to make it work. Commitment to ANYTHING has been on the decline. No wonder with our narcissistic self-serving society. We have enough problems in our society without creating this mindset in children.
I realize this is a dating blog, so let’s get back to that. Adults my age have a commitment problem, and we grew up in a far different world. It is difficult, even for me, to find a man who is genuinely committed to making a relationship and a marriage work – NO MATTER WHAT! Life is not perfect, and life is many times very hard – that is the time to pull together and lean on each other. Is it easy? No. Can it create enough tension in marriage to break that marriage up? Yes -UNLESS both parties are 100% committed to the marriage itself (notice I did not say each other, but the marriage itself). And that is why I have a huge problem with Kermit and Miss Piggy breaking up. We should be teaching our children what it takes to make relationships work! This is what we should be teaching our children, instead of showing them it is okay to bail out when times get tough – IT IS NEVER OKAY!
So when these children grow up, they are not going to understand TRUE commitment. They are probably not even going to see the kind of commitment that it takes to make a marriage last a lifetime. That makes me sad. Very sad.
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