Am I the only one who think that we no longer have as many rolemodels for our young people as we used to? Of course, your own parents can be your rolemodels, but I was thinking of societal rolemodels.

Many children regard celebrities as their rolemodels. Now the problem with that is, just about everybody is now regarded as a celebrity. One need only appear on TV once to become one.

While looking up to celebrities is in itself not a bad thing, the snag is that some of these young celebrities are not examplary at all. Now we all know that young people have very impressionable minds. They emulate just about everything that celebrities do - good or bad.

For that reason, shouldn't we be re-examining this whole notion of what a celebrity is, if only to ensure that our teenagers have the right rolemodels to identify with?

I must say, there are many young celebrities who are well behaved and can thus safely be regarded as good rolemodels. It is the bad few that I have a problem with.