My DD 8 and my DS 6 watch the show. I have to say the child (Hannah Montana i.e. Miley Cyrus) is incredibly talented. $20K a ticket talented? No. But it’s not about the talent, it’s about the status that your kids get to go to the concert with a much coveted ticket. IF the tickets weren’t going for this, or it hadn’t become a circus I would have taken my two eldest children to see her.
My DD heard she was in concert, at the time it was being announced that ticket re-sellers had used technology to buy up all available tickets nation-wide as they went on sale at TicketMaster on-line. Read: it was being announced that a normally $45 seat would be going for at least $200. Who knew it would get up to $20K? The whole thing is a trickle down of bad morality. You got opportunists making hundreds of thousands on little girls who want to see Hannah Montana, and parents who are buying the tickets despite the absolute outrageous prices (and one has to wonder if all these parents are wealthy enough to plop down $500-$40K for a couple of tickets. Me thinks not.) to appease their children. Again, it’s not even about Hannah Montana, it’s the status symbol. My DD is bummed it’s like that, but she didn’t throw a fit, she didn’t stomp her feet and demand, she just said “oh well, it would have been cool to see her.” Then she perked up upon hearing that Disney is going to release a DVD of the concert.
Someone mentioned the Wii. Again opportunists charging double in order for kids to have it by Christmas. It really annoys me, but it’s life. They wouldn’t be charging double if people were not paying it. Our in-laws gave us the money to buy the family a Wii for Christmas, but we waited too long. So now we wait for the after Christmas cool-down and get it when they hit the market again. We explained this to the kids, and not even a sniffle or fit. My son is anxious, sure, but he thought it was ordered and on it’s way. He now knows he waits until it’s available. No tears, just the way it is, and he’s just grateful to get one at all!
About the little girl in the Texas case, I was thinking about her this AM before posting. I was thinking of my own 6 year old. I was speculating about conversation regarding this as it went down. My own 6yo would call ME into question if I asked him to write lies. Yet he has a good foundation. I can speculate all I want to, but a six year old who is being raised to think one can make up anything, can lie, cheat or steal all one wants just to get what one wants at the end – dear me, is this our FUTURE?
Oh and not only NOT apologize after being caught but hire a lawyer and SUE? Can someone hand this lady a shovel? Apparently she didn’t think her own grave was deep enough.
Even the schools in our nation are being “busted” for cheating on state mandated tests (check out the latest Reader’s Digest) just for funding. If the kids aren’t helped to cheat, teachers and admin have been found to be blatantly changing answers on their tests. Where does this all end?
Really, I am so concerned. Morality and righteousness have taken a back seat to winning, at any cost. It’s destroying our children – they are the most innocent. And “we” are destroying that, we are responsible.
Oh and Cellophane – you don’t know how happy I am to hear the “neighbors” of this lady are not tolerating this. Public ostracizing
is the only way to deal with this anymore. But man that POOR little girl. She is either going to learn a serious lesson in goodness and righteousness or she’s going to be a self-righteous turd for the rest of her life. I suspect by mommy hiring the lawyer it’ll be the latter. Speculation true, but wow, how UNFAIR for that little girl. She has my prayers.
I was focusing on what she said in the beginning – at the onset of her “great idea.”