“Sexting”: What Is It, and Are Your Kids Doing It?

Wylie — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:59:08 +0000

Cell phone + Sex + Texting = Sexting.

Parent Alert!

Sexting, the sending of sexually explicit text messages, photographs, or videos via cell phones. This technology, with built-in high resolution camera and Internet access, now allows your kids to, both, send and receive porn over their cell phones, with the outgoing porn being of themselves.

The latest survey finds that one in five teen girls ages 13-19 years (22%)—and 11% of teen girls ages 13-16 years old—say they have sent, or posted online, nude or semi-nude images of themselves.

Are your teens doing it?

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Your Kids Privacy At The Expense Of Their Safety-No Way

Wylie — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:20:04 +0000

To all moms and dads with teens or pre-teens, I want to give you a heads up about what your kids really mean when they, angrily, tell you that they want their privacy, or that such and such is none of your business.

Keep in mind, if they were all that concerned with privacy they would not have their entire life plastered all over their My Space or Facebook pages for all their friends, and all the world to see.

Privacy is just a diversion, a code word, to draw your attention away from the real issue.

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Internet Filters/Monitors: How They Differ and Which One Is Right For Your Family?

Wylie — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:49:43 +0000

When you read the next two sentences I want you to think William Shakespeare's Hamlet (To be, or not to be...).

"To filter, or not to filter: that is the question." "To monitor, or not to monitor: that is the question." Wrong!

The real questions are “which,” “what kind of,” and “how many” different levels of filtering/monitoring should there be?

Families vs. Smut-National Endowment For The Arts (NEA) Votes for Smut

Wylie — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:20:26 +0000

So, what is our wise and compassionate government doing to alleviate the problems of Internet pornography, sexual predators, teen cyber bullying and sexting, as well as all the rest of the Internet garbage ? Congress, through the National Endowment for the Arts, is using $50,000,000 (50 million) in Stimulus funds (your money) for grants to so-called arts projects which, in this case, is a euphemism for pornography. The average grant runs close to $50,000. That amount could print one million Kid Safe Cyberspace booklets-a much better use of tax payer money.

Attorneys General – Enlist Corporate Sponsors In Efforts To Inform Parents About Internet Safety

Wylie — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:00:59 +0000

Parents are the most important link in protecting kids and teens from Internet dangers. If parents are out of the loop, if they lack Internet safety knowledge, kids are at a greater risk of falling prey to predators, porn, cyber-bullying, identity theft, and all the rest of the Internet garbage.

The rest of this article focuses on having States Attorneys General joining forces with major corporations to better promote Internet safety programs, aimed at parents.