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September 2007
Are Hollywood's wild children
influencing your kids?
Experts say parents are true role models
Susan Suleski
Special to Parenting
 Lindsay Lohan is caught drinking and driving. Paris Hilton serves time in jail. Michael Vick admits his role in a dogfighting ring. Are these icons all that our youth have as role models? Child psychologist Amy Schley says a resounding “no.”

Parents will be happy to know their opinions count, and when they least expect it, their children are watching and modeling them.

“I think most teenagers are looking at the antics of Paris Hilton ... and think, ‘Get a life,’” said Schley, who sees and counsels numerous children each year. Parents are a child’s first role model, she added, and “the important thing is that we remember that we are going to be replicated in many ways. If they see their parents having integrity, I think they will do likewise.”

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September 2007
Catholic Herald Parenting is a supplement of the Catholic Herald published eight times annually, September to May. It is intended to help parents pass on the Catholic faith to their children.
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