All Entries Tagged With: "Sexting"
“Sexting”: What Is It, and Are Your Kids Doing It?
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?
Internet Filters/Monitors: How They Differ and Which One Is Right For Your Family?
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
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.
How To Protect Your Kids From Internet Dangers
Remember, I said technology is not the complete answer? The reason: no filter 
or monitor is 100% effective. You must combine the high-tech filtering and monitoring systems with low-tech Internet usage ground rules. Create a checklist of these rules, or use this Internet Safety Tips handout, and have it posted next to the home computer. For a detailed explanation of these and many other Internet usage ground rules you need to get the Kid Safe Cyberspace booklet. The checklist should include but not be limited to:
An Internet Safety Booklet That Every Parent Should Have
The booklet, Kid Safe Cyberspace: A Parents Guide … gives you, in just 20 pages, a one-stop solution to protecting your kids from online dangers without having to wade through lengthy and out of date books or searching all over the Internet. Moms, Dads, don’t fool yourselves, the Internet can be a dangerous place for your kids and teens. This booklet will illustrate for you that, by mixing parenting and technology, your family can enjoy the benefits from the “good side” of the web and still be insulated from the “dark side.” A must for every family – This 20 page booklet costs just $2.50/copy; bulk pricing discounts to under $1.00. Order it now !
