ACE #165: Scandal Time - Kids See the Darndest Things

Shonda did it again! She intrigued us, shocked us, and kept us up late with the "It's a Family Affair" episode.  Every character in the show was either cheating or lying.  There were rocks thrown...okay, bricks thrown, at everyone's "glass house".  But it was the children who I felt most sorry for in all of this.  Instead of the kids being "hot and bothered" like regular teenagers, it was all of the adults who just couldn't control themselves.  Everybody was sneaking around like serpents in the Garden of Eden. 

Fitz and Mellie's daughter will never, ever be the same.  She was already hurt and embarrassed by what she'd heard about her father; then she caught her mother with "Uncle Andrew". The moral of the story - kids SEE the darndest things...on television, on the Internet, and in the home.

Families must be diligent about what they allow their children to come into contact with - physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.  Parenting...it is a job that should be taken more seriously.  While Scandal is "make believe", somebody's home might actually look like the Fictitious White House.  I shudder to think...

Matthew 5:16                     

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

                

1 Timothy 4:12                    

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

                

James 4:17                    

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

 In the words of Olivia Pope, "Fix your family!"

 

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