Child Celebrities- Rebuttal

    I'm going up against Elton, and his blog post about celebrity role models.

    First of all, this blog post is very badly worded. It was kind of hard to read, and was kind of confusing at a lot of parts. Because of this, it wasn't very convincing. The level of persuasiveness went down because of this, which does not make for a good argument.

    Anyways, I do not agree with Elton. His thesis is:

Child actors should be Role Models because since they are well known and just about everywhere, they could be a huge influence over the children over the world.

    Celebrities should not be the role models for children (or, at least, they shouldn't be expected to). Teachers and parents, as well as other family members, should be the only role models for a child's life. Most child actors, in the end, grow up to do drugs and lead lives of depression. This is not what we should consider a 'role model'. Elton goes onto say that child actors could tell the children the difference between right and wrong because the children would listen to them. I disagree with this because it's the parents should be teaching their kids the differences between right and wrong. People might say, "Oh, but children never listen to their parents!"
    If children are raised in an open environment in which their parents are comfortable answering their constant questions and, basically, being the child's main source of information (instead of the television or the computer), the child will automatically develop the idea that parents know what's best. It's basic logic.