Bro and I love playing C&C Generals, especially now we've found out copy of the Zero Hour expansion pack and I've managed to get the network working. Sarah never understood our involvement in the game, but lately she's started to play a bit of it with us, and while she isn't by any means hooked or loving the game, I think in time she will.

It's certainly helped by the fact you can be a pink player She's still learning how to do things so in time she'll be pretty good at it I think. YeY to Sarah for trying something new and spending time as a family. It'll be great when D is older and can play with us too. If Z and AJ come over, we could all have a game against each other, that'd be awesome. Kids V Adults. lol.

Susan Boyle who captured the attention of millions of Britain's got talent viewers and YouTube viewers had her final performance last night.

Susan Boyle lost the talent show, britain's got talent last night. You can read all about it at google news: here

So there a loads of free SMS services around. But not many of them are very reliable, well the ones that go to Australia anyway. SMSFun however is reliable, in fact your messages will take less then 60 seconds to arrive in most cases, unlike with some other services where sms's can take up to a day to arrive.

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Sarah & I where watching Saturday morning TV while Ambrose was busy running in and out of the room when h2O came on. The Australian made show features young girls, no older than 12 or 13 whom are dressed in skimpy clothing, styled to look like adults and put in situations and scenes which turn them into sexual objects. Like the baywatch style slomo run down the beach in their bikinis.

When we seen this it started a discussion, which brought us to the conclusion that modern society builds pedophiles. What is attractive and what is not is taught, not born with it. In the renascence for example plumper, more full figured women, what would now days be considered a size 14 where what was considered "sexy". Today society thinks as someone that size as over weight and ugly, in today's world you have to be young and be no larger than a size 8 to be considered "sexy" by mainstream culture.

Television, magazines and advertising increasingly display images and scenes of a sexual nature. As we continue to learn, and reshape what we consider "sexy" through-out our lives, even a 40 year old person can have a shift into new idea on what is "sexy" if exposed to new stimuli. With shows like the iconic baywatch giving us the indication that the barely clothed beach run is titillating; we learn that situations like this are of a sexual nature and call for arousal.

Even underwear is made of a sexual nature in our society. It is hidden from view. Think about it, before you found your significant other, the only time you ever seen the opposite genders underwear (other then your mothers) would have been in sexual situations. But then, primary school girls routinely do sports (especially running) in no bottoms other then their "bloomers".

Girls as young as 1 year old can own and wear bikini's. A piece of clothing which in itself presents the person in a sexual way, given it's resemblance to underwear. From children's size 2 clothing which is around 3 or 4 years old, you can buy your daughter G-Strings, skirts that barely cover anything, boob tubes (even though their body hasn't even realised what a boob is), make-up, BRAS! The list goes on.

And people actually buy this crap for their kids! That is the scariest part! If the clothing industry is going to push for children to look more adult and sexual, Media like Television and Magazines are going to publish children dressed in adult clothing, in classically sexual positions/scenes, if the music industry is going to push their young performers (like Miley Cyrus for example) to take a more adult, sexual look on board, if we are going to allow our children to act in ways we wouldn't find society acceptable for us to act in, or which if we did so we would find it of a sexual nature; then seriously what do we expect?

Making children out to be sexual, adult, objects is wrong. And telling someone who responds to that stimuli that they are wrong is even worse. You started it by exposing them to that content in the first place. Children should be allowed to be what they are, CHILDREN! And should be dressed appropriately, both in real life AND in the media. But the fact of the matter is there are an increasing number of children's TV shows which pose kids in adult roles.

The only question left is, what will we do about it? Will we allow all these things to happen, and except pedophiles into our society? Will we allow all these things to happen but continue to be hypocritical by frowning at the pedophiles which result from the environment we expose them to?

Or what I would much rather, will we take the blinders off and actually act in the best interests of our children? We will allow them to be children, and do something to stop the sexualisation of children? Will we boycot clothing manufactures which produce kids clothing of a sexual/adult nature? Boycot TV programs which have kids in adult roles? Especially ones where the children are in sexual situations? The choice is ours, and each individual has a voice which can be heard, together, united, it's a sound which can NOT be ignored.

I discovered a few days while we were packing up some of our stuff, that Sarah is scared of pine cones. She's not just scared that they'll fall out of the tree and bop her on the head, or anything quarter rational like that is. No for Sarah there is a whole new world when it comes to pine cones.

For the rest of us pine cones are simply inanimate seed pods which drop from pine trees hoping to spread the pine tree population. For Sarah they are much more lively. She told me she is of the opinion they fall out of the tree screaming, then rock back and forward on the ground squealing.

In Sarah's funny little world Pine cones are little animals which live in the pine tree, not it's seed. Why they would rock back n forth squealing is beyond my comprehension but to Sarah it makes perfect sense.