My two kids are only 4-years-old. For now. But one day, they will be teenagers facing teen life challenges, and as a parent I too will be facing the challenges of raising teens.
It cannot be easy being a teenager these days especially with peer pressure and the influences of pop culture. What kid doesn’t want to be popular and fit in with the cool crowd?
The fact that teenagers are more sexually aware than the time of their grandparents and their great-grandparents makes it even more challenging.
Call me old fashioned, but why do parents let their pre-teen daughters wear underwear like thongs? There is no reason for pre-teen girls to be wearing thongs. Thongs are underwear meant to show your sexuality and pre-teen girls have no business being that aware of their sexuality, and parents should not be helping them along with it. There will be time enough when they are older.
I heard a parent on the radio the other day, telling the talk show host about how boyfriends are asking their girlfriends to send nude pictures of themselves via phone.
Teen boys and girls are bombarded with pictures and videos of nude girls and women, and is it any surprise that teen boys are now expecting their girlfriends to share nude pictures of themselves?
The following story should be a tale of caution for girls when they are asked to share nude pictures of themselves, even if those pictures were initially meant to be shared between two girls.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Police faced a difficult if not impossible task Thursday as they tried to stop the spread of pornographic video and photos of two high school girls, images that were transmitted by cell phone to dozens of the girls’ classmates and then to the wider world.
District Attorney James B. Martin said at least 40 Parkland High School students believed to have received the images would not face prosecution as long as they show their phones to police by Tuesday to ensure the images have been erased.
But students at the school said the distribution was far more widespread.
Full story here.
Every time I come across a story such as this, the question is always, Where are the parents? Why are parents not aware of what is going on with their children and the friends that they are with?
Parents need to be parents and kids need the guidance from responsible parents.
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