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Game: Boom Blox
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TV: Numb3rs
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my second fav show okay for younger kids as long as they dont mind the whole looking at bloody and sometimes gruesome people at crime areas also sometimmes parents are killed wich could upset ...
TV: MythBusters
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the only show that could be iffy is son of a gun
DVD: Baby Mama
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great movie
Book: Dial L for Loser: A Clique Novel
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first off I am a Big reader just since january i've probably read atleast 100 books. So anyway i looked through some of my favs from this year and most of the time you adults agreed with me but this ...
Book: Once Upon a Time in the North
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Social Networks and Teen Lives
Your Comments:"This means that kids are talking less and posting more.” This is an obviously flawed statement, I (along with every friend of mine) do not use phones and facebook *instead* of talking face to face, but rather as an add-on or extra. If we are with people we talk to people, a lot of the time I can't be with my friends and so I can still talk to them on facebook, or over texting. This is also true with older cousins in college, relatives checking up on me and chatting when I generally wouldn't get to talk to them besides Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving etc. Also "2,200-plus texts a month, versus only 200 phone calls, according to Nielsen" 200 hundred phone calls, checking my phone my average is about 150, probably 100 or so just being 1 minute or less conversations with coordinating my school pick-up with my dad or mom. So lets discredit those, now we are left with 100, now probably 30 of these are dropped calls (I reason this because the same number is called right after one ended) Okay so now we have 20 averaging about 30 -45 minutes a piece for an average of about 15 hours, and actually when I look up my minutes talked its more like 12 in the past 31 days. Now, while this may seem to prove this statement, take a look at the texting number 2200. Personally I'm always about at 2000 a month or a little less. Now while this may look like more texts then talk, you must now remember to factor in that I could read off all of these conversations in probably around 2 hours. So there we have it 6:1 talking vs. texting. Not to mention that I face to face talk, at lunch, breaks, and whenever friends are over (face to face conversations happen just as often if not more often then they would have 40 to 50 years ago). All in all, however, this article is reasonable and well written; it's just that one horribly flawed, and overly biased paragraph that lends a downward slant for today’s youth that makes degrades the rest of the articles authority. Jakelin (nickname, you were very right about that!) 15
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Should You "Friend" Your Kids on Facebook?
Your Comments:me and my mom aren't friends but, she dos have my password, i liked this at first bc i didn't want all my friends to see i had to but now... i think i will , i like having my private messages private, not bc i say anything wrong but its nice to have somthing thats mine. And ya i get it, nothings really private, my parents are both comp people so they could figure a way on it anyway(so could anyone else with a lil know how). But as long as she doesn't like right stuff on my wall i'll be good. I realsized a TON of kids have parents added, a lot of them added them by choice too
- Article:
Is Texting Taking Over Your Teen?
Your Comments:Personally I'm a kid and I'm 14(had a phone since age 12) and while some of the kids are making fools of themselves on this forum so are many of the adults. For me I do talk on my phone whenever I can, my parents would probably tell you I text ALL the time though. The reason for this is because texting is a way to constantly stay connected, even at times were calling wouldn't work, or it's to personal to say out loud in front of everyone. Like: talking about your crush, venting about a stupid teacher, when you're in a crowded room, or even just when the conversation wouldn't be very long. And if there’s some rude kid using texting as a tool for bullying then well your son never has to even read them check the phone number and delete it, maybe sending a warning message to the bully that you're going to do this so they realize how stupid it was too. But, since I've never seen this happen before I can't offer too much help over that aohmes. I also think it's annoying when parents read texts, at least in certain ways. For instance I wouldn't mind too much as long as they don't talk about it with me so if you secretly read (and I really mean skim for BAD things like violence drugs and alcohol) it's fine that's protection, but anything beyond that or talking about it with them (unless one of the aforementioned BAD things) about it is just weird, and won't help anyone: the kid will be upset over the invasion of privacy, and the adult will now never get to see the BAD things listed because no kid with a brain is going to put something like that in a text if they know their parents will be reading it. SO my message to you parents reading this is don't read the stuff to snoop read it to protect, and if telling your kid hampers that protection then don't tell. A phone is a privilege not a right. Taking a phone away won't stop the bad stuff, from being talked about or done however (so don’t take a phone a way for those reasons), but it will make it so that the kid will be upset and then have to look for other ways (behind your back, at school, etc.) to talk to friends, and that is a slippery slope once they realize how easy some things are. So wouldn't you rather know when your kid is talking with the option to easily read messages (only skimming for BAD things remember), as compared to them finding other ways where there’s no chance of you being able to skim for that BAD stuff, and help or protect them. And a special note to aohmes: Your son probably is deleting some of those messages, maybe not from the bully, but others. Try finding a less intrusive way to scan them. Many providers offer a list of messages to come with the bill. A special note to one kid whose name I didn't catch. Not all kids swear, I don't and never have. So please don't say crap like that, and moderate and reread your comments... you're not helping when you make us sound bad
