cell phone cameras, myspace and facebook make it so easy for these stupid kids to participate in these things. My daughter is a teacher and I see so much of the damage that these instant cameras invading every private moment. Then to have pictures and videos instantly put on myspace and facebook makes life unbearable for many many children. Nightly kids texted and post the most awful things about other kids. I just read a book even (fiction) where a character's "good girl" 14 yr old was up to 2 AM every night texting and posting and CRYING about a gym locker room photo that was posted with nearly naked. By cheerleaders and "friends". The boys who robbed, raped and beat this real girl are felons but the other 20 students are as much to blame. I would shutter to think of my child standing by and watching this. Doing nothing is just as bad as doing the deed. My parents taught me that lesson when I was 14 yrs old in 1969 and I was with 2 friends. We went to a restaurant in our small town and THEY ate and we had no money with us and left without paying. By the time we walked home our parents had been called and while the owners told my parents I HAD NOT eaten anything, my parents gave me the worst of the punishment. They were strict but they were right....."I should not have been there....I should have walked away." I think this event was on an early June evening.....I was grounded for the entire summer!!
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cell phone cameras, myspace and facebook make it so easy for these stupid kids to participate in these things. My daughter is a teacher and I see so much of the damage that these instant cameras invading every private moment. Then to have pictures and videos instantly put on myspace and facebook makes life unbearable for many many children. Nightly kids texted and post the most awful things about other kids. I just read a book even (fiction) where a character's "good girl" 14 yr old was up to 2 AM every night texting and posting and CRYING about a gym locker room photo that was posted with nearly naked. By cheerleaders and "friends". The boys who robbed, raped and beat this real girl are felons but the other 20 students are as much to blame. I would shutter to think of my child standing by and watching this. Doing nothing is just as bad as doing the deed. My parents taught me that lesson when I was 14 yrs old in 1969 and I was with 2 friends. We went to a restaurant in our small town and THEY ate and we had no money with us and left without paying. By the time we walked home our parents had been called and while the owners told my parents I HAD NOT eaten anything, my parents gave me the worst of the punishment. They were strict but they were right....."I should not have been there....I should have walked away." I think this event was on an early June evening.....I was grounded for the entire summer!!
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