WHEN confronted with the visual, uncomfortable truth, most parents say the same words: my child would never do that.
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eParenting and Parenting in the 21st Century
eParenting used to mean keeping your kids safe on the Internet, however now it has a wider scope including parenting with the use of technology, and distance parenting. Curated by Peter Mellow |
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WHEN confronted with the visual, uncomfortable truth, most parents say the same words: my child would never do that.
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Unsuspecting children are being lured to play explicit, animated sex games through a website that purports to be a children's gaming site. - New Zealand Herald
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Most people criticising schoolgirls for taking intimate photographs have the benefit of having grown up without the internet.
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Telling girls and young women to 'be careful what images you share' contributes to the shaming and humiliation of victims by placing the responsibility back onto them for their own humiliation.
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"Sext" education, legalising sexting between consenting teenagers and banning websites that glorify eating disorders are among the suggestions fo
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Teenage girls say online bullying and pressure to send sexy images have become everyday problems.
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Experts say parents need to get up-to-date on their kids' technology use.
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It has long been the preserve of what we might call the heirs to Mary Whitehouse to deny that young people are fascinated by sex and what it might mean to them. So a study by the NASUWT teaching union, which has revealed that children as young as seven have been engaged in “sexting” – the practice of sending messages containing sexualised images to one another using a mobile phone – should come as a useful wake-up call.
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Children as young as seven are using social media to share sexual messages, pictures or videos, research has found.
More than half of teachers said they knew of pupils who had used social media for “sexting”, the poll by the NASUWT teachers’ union said.
A quarter of the 1,300 teachers polled knew of pupils involved in sexting who were as young as 11, but the youngest child reported was just seven. The majority of the pupils involved were aged between 13 and 16.
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An inquiry into one recent scandal reveals how kids think about sexting—and what parents and police should do about it.
It is amazing to watch the steady progress of what is becoming acceptable. And, the knee-jerk impulse to criminalize all risky behavior often does the most harm. -Lon
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Creating and sharing sexually explicit pictures or messages through mobile phones, the internet and other electronic devices, has become a concerning pastime of children.