It occured to me tonight that the Wiggles have been gracing Australia’s screens and partronising our children for about 16 years. Wikipedia confirmed this – the Wiggles began their careers in 1991 – which means that the first generation of 2 year olds weened on the Wiggles will now be coming of age.
This brings me to a worrying connection between the playful, colourful “entertainers” (and I use that term loosely) and the youth of today.
As we know, children notoriously rebel against their children in the most extreme methods available. The antithesis to the primary colours wearing musos popular with a generation of Australian children is of course the emo:
That’s right – the emo epidemic sweeping the nation is directly attributable to the Wiggles and their massive popularity with parents who have imposed their happy, fun-filled, rhythmic form of control on unruly children over the last 16 years. It’s time to take stock of the impact modern parenting could have on tomorrow’s children.
And now for something completely different…
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I think you’d need to be a bit older than 2 for teh Wiggles to have that effect on you. More 5 or 6 years old! And the 5 and 6 year olds of 1991 are now 21 or 22- definitely not the emo generation :P
I disagree – my boss has her 1 year old boy on a steady diet of the Wiggles. Plus – while they formed in 1991 they took a little while to establish an audience.