• , Wednesday, June 9, 2004 12 AM

As a matter of fact, it is your father's Oldsmobile. It's amazing how it's so hard to avoid becoming your parents or, worse, parenting like them. In a world that rapidly seems to pass adult traits to the young, television has always been a culprit, sometimes with good reason. And yet, in the subculture known as "tweeners" -- kids still looking up at their teen years but feeling more mature than their age or the television geared toward them -- some of the programming may alarm parents. Or it may encourage them.

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