The most difficult job you can ever have is becoming a parent. You become responsible for most part for another human being who will depend solely on you for a time. Children are the easiest when they are tiny tots. They turn 5 and all hell breaks loose. They become little individuals with minds of their own and refuse to listen to you. It becomes an uphill struggle from then on, which becomes one that might require the relief of medication when they become teenagers.
This is compounded by the fact that today children have an arsenal at their disposal to torture you with. The technology is just dumbfounding and frightening. The other day my students were talking about chat rooms which they deemed unsafe for youngsters and I decided to check them out. I was alarmed by what I discovered: there is no protection of minors from preying perverts. There are chat rooms where you have to be 18 to enter but there is no strict streaming of participants to ensure that they really are 18 and over. There is a warning given before entering any chat room on mxit that participants should not give out personal information but I discovered that they rarely take heed of the warning. On 2go anyone can enter any chat room; there are no restrictions.
Children do what their friends are doing and it is essential to ensure that your children do not keep with the wrong crowd. Which begs the question: should you choose who your kids play and hang out with and monitor what they do? There are parents who let their kids run wild; doing what they want, picking up nasty habits and language. You children become what you let them be. If you let them hang around arsonists, no good losers, addicts of all sorts then you shouldn't be surprised if they turn out to be little parasites you can never get rid of.
peace,
fadz
This is compounded by the fact that today children have an arsenal at their disposal to torture you with. The technology is just dumbfounding and frightening. The other day my students were talking about chat rooms which they deemed unsafe for youngsters and I decided to check them out. I was alarmed by what I discovered: there is no protection of minors from preying perverts. There are chat rooms where you have to be 18 to enter but there is no strict streaming of participants to ensure that they really are 18 and over. There is a warning given before entering any chat room on mxit that participants should not give out personal information but I discovered that they rarely take heed of the warning. On 2go anyone can enter any chat room; there are no restrictions.
Children do what their friends are doing and it is essential to ensure that your children do not keep with the wrong crowd. Which begs the question: should you choose who your kids play and hang out with and monitor what they do? There are parents who let their kids run wild; doing what they want, picking up nasty habits and language. You children become what you let them be. If you let them hang around arsonists, no good losers, addicts of all sorts then you shouldn't be surprised if they turn out to be little parasites you can never get rid of.
peace,
fadz
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