Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 30
th, 2015 at 7:33am:
UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 30
th, 2015 at 4:41am:
Bindi just seems either naive or a bit socially inept. I agree with Herbert. The media is going to try and make a good dollar out of seeing Bindi either fail or shine. So, Bindi is going to need to make friends with the more streetwise crowd, fairly soon.
My sentiments exactly.
I've been observing her like a clinical psychologist for quite some time now - wondering where the fame that has been thrust upon her will all end up. She's almost a (human) laboratory guinea pig in today's aggressive and insincere social environment.
When I was a boy of about 13 living in a beach-side resort village in the far west of England, I knew a doctor's daughter of around 15 who would occasionally appear amongst us kids just for company. She was a very quiet girl, reserved and pristine virginal in body and spirit. And she just happened to be sensationally beautiful.
And then she disappeared for several years, until one day I got off a bus in the local town, and there she was, pushing a pram - and looked utterly hideous, with her face plastered with make-up and looking like a street prostitute. I was too embarrassed
for her to make myself known.
Later, I discovered she had gone to Paris where she was like
exposed cat meat for being so naive and innocent - and of course, in no time at all she was being routinely 'humped' until she had a bun in the oven from god-knows how many 'suitors'.
That was the starkest example I've personally witnessed of a beautiful and lovely young girl becoming the sad victim of having been brought up in an unrealistic Pollyanna world in which she believed everyone had her best interests at heart, and everyone was as nice and decent as her parents were.
Being from Rockhampton, my town has a reputation for teenage girls getting pregnant. But it's more like the 17, 18, and 19 year old girls getting pregnant. Most women wait until at least 25 before they start having children.
However, I have had to see the occasional teenage girl get pregnant, well before they were due. I happen to be one of the men that did get one 19 year old woman pregnant, so I would be a hypocrite to criticise. Yet, I do see a distinction between a "woman" getting pregnant and a teen "girl" getting pregnant. The real issue is when a person is ready to become a mother. I know for certain that I was not ready to become a father. And I also know that I'm not ready for my 16 year old daughter to make the same mistakes as her mother in getting pregnant.
I can think of two examples that I did not cause myself. One being a 19 year old having two children, and living an abusive relationship with an ex partner. The other being a 16 year old who basically wrote that she "wanted a baby" on social media, to her 'friends'.
-The 19 year old worked her butt off to make a good life for her two children, and put her children first. That being, even if she had to use her parents as baby sitters. Genuinely a good mother.
-The 16 year old, basically got pregnant for the sake of her own whimsical experience. The mother is apparently a drug addict (allegedly), and I doubt that she would be an ideal candidate for a mother's day card from her own child.
Bindi Irwin will know better than to fall into this sort of lifestyle trap. She has a career still well ahead of her, that she is already learning. But, I do think she needs a dose of reality, so that she does not let her naive persona get the better of her.
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