Morning newspaper front page news. Not exactly sure that is the major story of the day but at least it catches attention to a continuing problem. Kids are not nice to one another when they are face to face. They can be very horrible to one another when they are sitting in front of a computer screen or laughing at their cell phone.
Young people need to be responsible for their actions. You pay the bill. That makes you partly responsible. Then there is that whole thing about being a parent. Facebook is not the evil party here. It is a great social networking system - and there are many others - it is the user. Calling one another names and make cruel and crude comments is not new. The scope and endlessness of it all has changed. Kids forget and move on every few minutes. The Internet is timeless and spaceless. What gets put out there stays forever.
Please remind your sons and daughters that we need to be respectful of ourselves and others. Bullying is not a cute childish behavior. It is cruel and mean.
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