Is Childhood Falling Out of Fashion?

Marc Porter Zasada writes in The Survival of Childhood, "Most children now dress in identical clothing, wear identical hairstyles, listen to identical music, watch identical programming, and play identical games as adults. Child entertainers slink sexily onto our stages. On situation comedies, children speak precociously in the same brash and insulting manner as their goggle-eyed parents."

Kids shouldn't be fashion statements. Is it possible to screen our kids from peer and media influences? Perhaps we need to take a closer look at ourselves to better understand why our kids want to grow up so fast.