9. Blowing Off Responsibility With No Negative Repercussion
How many times do we see kids skipping classes in the movies? Or people not showing up for work so they can be a part of the protagonist's journey? How often do they get in trouble? Never. They never get in trouble. I think I skipped classes a handful of times in college and always regretted it because of all of the work that I knew was giving myself. If my mother asked me three times in one day to take the trash out, not only would any excuse not be acceptable for why it was still sitting there, but she wouldn't have done it herself. It would have been in my bedroom, probably, making the chore even more trying to do than it was originally. Is this just the way kids are being raised these days or are movies and TV making children want to stop doing chores for the sake of their own lives?
8. Reading
I don't know what it is about reading in movies and TV, but they make it look like reading doesn't take that long and also makes you look smarter and more intellectual than you actually are. Prime example: Bella Swan in Twilight. She reads Wuthering Heights over and over and over again. I don't understand what this is supposed to add to her character, considering she in the most selfish, unoriginal stain on the female species that there has ever been. Granted, I know her reading was in the book before the movie, but they kept it in there! Oh, and before it was cool to read books in movies and on TV, it was the lamest, most geeky thing a person could do. There is no middle ground on reading. And they especially don't show kids reading because they have to, which is so much of what the reading in our lives is done for. They wouldn't want to show kids doing what they have to do.