Has anyone seen the ‘reality TV’ programme My Super Sweet 16 on MTV? It basically highlights just how spoilt children in America are when they demand their parents to fork out a ridiculous amount of money for a party to celebrate their sixteenth birthday. The general theme of the parties is to have a celebrity perform at their parities and for the present to be a brand new expensive car like a Mercedes or Range Rover. This doesn’t seem so bad as Americans can start learning to drive when they are 16, but now they have bought the show over to England and the show is pretty much the same even the presents being brand new cars which I don’t see the point in as people in England can’t start learning to drive until they’re 17.
Anyway I caught the end of My Super Sweet 16 UK last night just in time to see what the lucky girl had been bought for her birthday but this time her Dad went way over the line, was she bought a car..Oh no! At the age of just 16 the girl was given the keys to her own flat!! This actually blew my mind, why on earth a 16 year old would need a flat of their own I do not know and whatever possessed her parents to buy one for her is beyond me. There is no way either of my parents would buy me a place of my own now that I’m 20 let alone when I was 16!
Would anyone else’s parents have bought them a flat when they were 16?
Anyway I caught the end of My Super Sweet 16 UK last night just in time to see what the lucky girl had been bought for her birthday but this time her Dad went way over the line, was she bought a car..Oh no! At the age of just 16 the girl was given the keys to her own flat!! This actually blew my mind, why on earth a 16 year old would need a flat of their own I do not know and whatever possessed her parents to buy one for her is beyond me. There is no way either of my parents would buy me a place of my own now that I’m 20 let alone when I was 16!
Would anyone else’s parents have bought them a flat when they were 16?
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That show seems to really encompass the materialistic culture that now seems to be evolving with some young people. Obviously these are extreme cases but dear god that's just ridiculous! lol
I know! Some parents just need to learn how to say NO! I mean it's not like I don't get nice things for my birthday but the people in these programmes go beyond the ridiculous! I probably won't end up spending even half what they do on my wedding!
I do worry that my little sister will want loads spent on her for her 16th birthday (although it's 8 years away) she already has a portable dvd player, a Nintendo DS, a Nintendo Wii, a trampoline in the back garden - yes you heard me right a trampoline and not just a small one every child gets but a 12ft trampoline - and a mobile phone! And she's 8 years old..I'm just waiting for her to ask for a pony for her 9th birthday!
She's also abit of a jet setter having travelled to Jamaica with my Dad and Stepmum on their honeymoon (she was 16months old at the time but still), she recently went on holiday with a friend from school to St. Lucia and she's going to Dubai in May!...Maybe I should be teaching my Dad the word 'no', although he never seems to have a problem saying it to me or my brother ha!
I know, I totally agree, its ridiculous! I watch it all the time with my friends to just simply laugh at how spoilt and bitchy they are! Its ridiculous, their parents just have so much money they dont know what to do with it, so they throw it at their 'little girls'. They act so much older than they are aswell! Its like they think they're adults now or something! I think its almost wrong to show it on tv, most people dont have that amount of money and kids just go away pressuring their parents to give them the same thing, and when they dont get it they get upset.
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