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shared by Beverly Prange on 27 Mar 12 - Cached

shared by jeffery heil on 21 Jan 12 - No Cached

There’s no shortage of grown-up distress over the dangers young people face online.
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Endless back-and-forthing over how to respond effectively — shutting Web sites, regulating online access and otherwise tempering the world of social media for children — dominates the P.T.A. and the halls of policy makers.
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“Children’s ability to roam has basically been destroyed,”
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“Letting your child out to bike around the neighborhood is seen as terrifying now, even though by all measures, life is safer for kids today.”
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Children naturally congregate on social media sites for the relatively unsupervised conversations, flirtations, immature humor and social exchanges that are the normal stuff of teenage hanging-out, she said.
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What scares me is that we don’t want to look at the things that make us uncomfortable. So rather than see what teenagers are showing us online about bullying and suicide and the problems they’re dealing with and using that information to help them, we’re making ourselves blind to it.”
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She asks, for example, how teenagers can be encouraged to become politically active when so much of that activity takes place online.
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she wonders whether gay children grappling with their sexuality might benefit enormously from chatting online with adults who have been through similar situations.
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shared by Susan Glassett Farrelly on 05 Nov 11 - No Cached

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