Its an alarming emerging practice amongst teens in USA.
a very high number of school going teens in USA carry a cellphone that is given to them by their parents. about 20% teens are using that to take nude/semi nude pic of themselves and sending them to their friends. The practice is called Sexting.
Recently, three teenage girls who allegedly sent nude or semi-nude cell phone pictures of themselves, and three male classmates in a western Pennsylvania high school who received them, are charged with child pornography.
I am always against giving teens a full fledged working cell phone, There are many cell phones available that are designed for kids that can dial only 2-3 numbers. 911 and 2 programmable numbers (of parents and maybe someone else). if the concern of the parents is to be in touch with their kids, that type of phone should be suffice.
What is your take of exposing your kids to the high tech gadgets. You think its for their safety or is it exposing them to the weirdness that you and me never even dreamt of.
No all six of them cause when you send a picture through cell phone, a copy is saved on your phone also, so its the possession of child porn that was the charge on them..
Its an alarming emerging practice amongst teens in USA.
a very high number of school going teens in USA carry a cellphone that is given to them by their parents. about 20% teens are using that to take nude/semi nude pic of themselves and sending them to their friends. The practice is called Sexting.
Recently, three teenage girls who allegedly sent nude or semi-nude cell phone pictures of themselves, and three male classmates in a western Pennsylvania high school who received them, are charged with child pornography.
I am always against giving teens a full fledged working cell phone, There are many cell phones available that are designed for kids that can dial only 2-3 numbers. 911 and 2 programmable numbers (of parents and maybe someone else). if the concern of the parents is to be in touch with their kids, that type of phone should be suffice.
What is your take of exposing your kids to the high tech gadgets. You think its for their safety or is it exposing them to the weirdness that you and me never even dreamt of.
Yes the **"SexThing" :) **was popular even when we were growing up.........
the main toy in those days was the backseat of automobiles **and not **MobilePhones........:D
Anybody who has khurak will satisfy that khurak in anyway possible. I have been victim of flashing at University campus , on drive through window of a burger joint when I used to work there and even while driving on the road
I used to work on a burger joint on one of California beeches and many a times in the graveyard shift a girl or women will come driving a car completely in nude. Honest ,No exaggeration.
The parents who have given full featured cell phone to their teenagers have a computer at home and a digital camera too. So those girls can satisfy their khurak by using that digital camera and that computer.
Or they will flash themselves to others in some corner of school.
It is not the technology that is to be blamed for everything. It is how those kids were raised or what kind of personality makeup they have.
I am totally against giving cell phones to children..there's no need for it. If there's an emergency, they can use the payphone or the school will call the parents. If you need to make personal phone calls to freinds or whomever, that's what the home landline is for. If its an absolute necessity for the kids to have a cell phone, then they should only get the kind that TLK described.
Just recently a school teacher friend of mine told me a horrible thing… that little boys in her elementary school were caught flashing at little girls and some who are very hormonal even invited physical touching. One of the girls reported this.
So while I want to pull my little girl aside and tell her never to go near a boy alone in any corner of the school, I feel I’ll pollute her gentle and innocent mind. So I just told her to stick around with her buddies at recess…they do have a supervisor and they still are very little but some day they will be on their own. :hinna:
Keep telling them bad and good and pray to Allah to keep them naik and farmabardar, . This is what I pray after my namaz "aye Allah maujhay aur maree biwi aur bachoon ko naik aur sualah rakhna"
I was watching Dr Phil’s show the other day and they were talking about how child molestors/pedophiles are getting to children and meeting them. Alot of the kids had cell phones and they would just randomly text the kids and start conversations. There was one teenage girl brought in by her mother, who was taking topless pics of herself and sending it out people she met online. She was also meeting them and having sex with them, once when her dad walked in on her And to top it all off, the girl thought she wasnt doing anything wrong at all and that she can tell when a person is good or bad by their myspace profile. Talk about being naive!
^Raising children wasn't as complicated before as it has become these days..too many scary stories! Mirch bhai is right, we can tell our children whats right and wrong, and just pray for them. That's about all. :(
I remember back in high school, a few people from our class were part of the sex-ed educators group. They would go to different elementary/middle schools to educate the young ones on different stuff. I heard the most absurd stories from them. They would mention how even a SECOND grader knows about sex these days. They went to an elementary school once and a few 'little' boys (fourth/fifth graders) knew all these sex jokes and kept interrupting the 'teacher' with crude remarks.
What else do you expect when the kids have all the access to every kind of stuff put on TV and movies. I don't think the family or parents can be blamed all the time.. I have seen the most religious parents have absolute crazy kids.
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The parents who have given full featured cell phone to their teenagers have a computer at home and a digital camera too. .
digital cameras cannot take and send pictures that easily, plus digital cameras and computers are at home so they are relatively in a more controlled environment than the cellphones,
I didnt get a cell phone until i was 25 years old. These days even preteens have them. Thats scary and i am afraid my kids are going to want to go with the flow: so and so has it, why cant i?
Something I like about cell phones is the GPS capability...you always know where your kids are. But I agree completely with the others - if a kid has a cell phone, it should be limited to "phone home" and emergency call only. Home computers should be in the family room, not in kids bedrooms, monitoring software should be installed, chatrooms disabled. Too many crazies out there.
These issues are everywhere (in catholic, private and even islamic schools). Parents need to be MORE AND MORE vigilant of what their child is doing, who they are talking to on the phone on the chat.
You can request bills that show all the numbers. You can also get copies of all the texts sent and received from the phone.
You won't be the most popular parent in the crowd but you'll get the job done :)
And to top it all off, the girl thought she wasnt doing anything wrong at all and that she can tell when a person is good or bad by their myspace profile. Talk about being naive!