I’ve been working a part-time job. It doesn’t pay much of anything, but to be honest the money wasn’t the incentive. The weather has been so bad I was absolutely bored out of mind. Anyway, the job is working for ChaCha. If you don’t know what that is, don’t feel bad I didn’t until a few weeks ago either. ChaCha is a SMS or Short Message Service. People text in questions and get answers to them. And it’s those questions that prompted me to write this particular post.

I won’t even go into how ignorant kids seem to be about sex, or how foul the language is from many of them……my point here is about cancer awareness.

On any given day, I get numerous questions about whether or not something could be cancer. “I have a bump on my arm that looks like a pimple, could it be cancer?” Or, “I’m constipated, could it be cancer?” “It burns when I pee, could it be cancer?”

Most of these questions presumably come from teenagers…and often young teenagers at that.

Have we gone too far with this whole cancer awareness thing? Are we raising a generation of children who are neurotic and fearful that every little thing could be cancer? Is all of the awareness raising too much of a good thing? I think so and I think we need to consider a better way of dealing with cancer awareness than scaring kids to death with it.

I was talking to my mom yesterday and a friend of hers was talking about her 4 year old granddaughter. The granddaughter was upset and crying and told her grandmother she needed to buy her some Cymbalta.
The child brought it up a number of times, asking for the pill that would make her happy. And we wonder why kids turn to drugs? Seriously? Every time you turn on the TV you get bombarded with drug commercials…ask YOUR doctor for the little blue, pink, purple, magic pill and then we tell kids not to do drugs.

What are we doing to our kids?