I'm asking the question because of this story I found at Newsbusters. As liberal parents we would not have allowed our kids to use if it was available then.
12-Year-Old Black Conservative Receives Twitter Death Threats for Being
Unless you tie your kids up in a room with no electronic gadgets, they're going to do what they do at age 12. It's like when I deemed our house a no video game house, no problem, but I would be a fool to think they weren't playing video games at their friends' houses. So unless they have no cellphone, no access to computerized gadgets of their friends, and every minute of their time online at home is 100% lorded over.... they're going to have a twitter account if they want one. Most 12 year olds are more app savvy than their parents.
When reality outranks appropriate, it's a fool's errand to be concerned about the latter and instead should prepare the 12 year old to properly handle the former.The question isn't what they are going to do, it's is it appropriate?
When reality outranks appropriate, it's a fool's errand to be concerned about the latter and instead should prepare the 12 year old to properly handle the former.
Here we go with age standards again, so what should mommy and daddy government make the minimum age to use Twitter?
When reality outranks appropriate, it's a fool's errand to be concerned about the latter and instead should prepare the 12 year old to properly handle the former.
Ah, the old "well they're gonna do it anyways" approach. Gee, I have no idea why kids are so out of control these days. :roll:
I'm asking the question because of this story I found at Newsbusters. As liberal parents we would not have allowed our kids to use if it was available then.
12-Year-Old Black Conservative Receives Twitter Death Threats for Being
Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying. When does the words of the parents outrank what the 12 year old wants? How about sex? Drugs? ...
I'm asking the question because of this story I found at Newsbusters. As liberal parents we would not have allowed our kids to use if it was available then.
12-Year-Old Black Conservative Receives Twitter Death Threats for Being
Ah, the old "well they're gonna do it anyways" approach. Gee, I have no idea why kids are so out of control these days. :roll:
Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying. When does the words of the parents outrank what the 12 year old wants? How about sex? Drugs? ...
On the contrary, it's mostly the children of highly authoritarian anti-reality parents who wind up with these problems. The ones who think abstinence-only should still be pushed despite its complete failure, the ones who think threatening people with years or decades in prison is a sane solution to college kids smoking pot, the ones who think of other people a bit like dogs; they're to be trained, not talked to.
The ones who grew up like that are the ones having children as children, doing drugs, etc, for reasons explained below.
I'm asking the question because of this story I found at Newsbusters. As liberal parents we would not have allowed our kids to use if it was available then.
12-Year-Old Black Conservative Receives Twitter Death Threats for Being
Do you have any actual evidence to support this? Because, I'm pretty sure troubled kids come from all walks of life.
A far, far bigger question is what kind of sick **** sends anyone, let alone a twelve-year-old, death threats.
BTW I believe that online death/rape/other violence/etc. threats are not taken seriously enough by most law enforcement authorities. Malicious trolls know this and thus know that in most cases, they will be free to threaten with impunity.
This is exactly why parents should not allow their kids to use it. They should be told that if they did use social media they might get threats of all sorts.
I understand the need to protect our kids, but doesn't this put the onus on the victim?
This is exactly why parents should not allow their kids to use it. They should be told that if they did use social media they might get threats of all sorts.
The obvious problem here is that the Internet makes cyberbullying far easier, and restricting kids from using social media is a roundabout way to solve that problem. Cyberbullying needs to be curbed and the Internet should not be a place one has to worry about harassment.
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