Kids Growing up too Fast

The possible issue I could use:
This world of technology and media, more and more often you will see a little kid with a cell phone texting away or a ten year old girl trying to dress like an adult, with the low cut tight jeans and pedicured/manicured nails, and hair done up in an adult style. The media and technology are everywhere you go. You can't escape it unless you choose to decide to go to some remote location. Kids in elementray school do not need to get a cell and be texting their friends. They should be outside talking and playing with one another. Even in middle school and beginning high school they don't need one. The only reason I can think of why a young person would need a cell phone would be if they had a car and/or a job. Kids are loosing the ability of how to have a real converstation face to face becuase instead they are texting away or chatting on MySpace or Facebook. Also, more and more the ideals of the media are being thrust down the thrust, almost willingly, of children. It doesn't help the kids are watching more and more television and being sucked into the unrealistic realistc world of the media. Young girls are convinced that in order to be like or loved they most match the definition of beauty that the media portrays. Again, we are seeing kids in elementary school in boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. They don't need that but it is happening everywhere; they shouldn't even think about getting a boy/girlfriend until they are in high school at least. I also here of stories of little children in kingergarten classes getting the "sex talk." That "talk" we wouldn't get until 5th or 6th grade. Also we see that we are putting children into more activities and groups and sports to the point they hardly have time for anything; there is no down time. As a society we are indirectly and directly forcing or children to grow up faster and faster and in return stealing away precious years of childhood. Having a childhood and being able to play as a child is an important time for growing up and we are talking that away.

The audience:
The main audience I would like to be able to direct this too is towards parents and pre-teen/middle school kids (about ages 8-13). A lot of what kids do and act is through they way their parents raise them. If I can raise the awarness of this issue to parents and have them understand what is happening then maybe parents could find a way to improve the way they are raising their children. If I could somehow get the idea into the hormonally filled head of a teenager then mayber I could influence them to slow down their lives and realize the things they may have now is something that don't really need.

Genres:
Some ways that I could get to the audience would be through the use of new media such as Facebook or Myspace groups or pages, or find blogs that parents use and could see. Using one sentence liners would be affective for the younger ages and using more small paragraphs for the parents. We could also bring the issue straight into the classrooms of young students, like they do for anti-drug usage. Short ads on tv would works as well (like they do for anti-drug usage). The list goes on and on.