{"id":3710,"date":"2010-12-01T15:38:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T19:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncdata.wpengine.com\/?p=3710"},"modified":"2017-11-15T12:57:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T16:57:07","slug":"omg-parents-by-lisa-fritsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2010\/12\/01\/omg-parents-by-lisa-fritsch\/","title":{"rendered":"OMG Parents, by Lisa Fritsch"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"100\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/bios\/P21Speakers_Fritsch.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/images\/fristch_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa Fritsch\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>OMG Parents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Lisa Fritsch (<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/bios\/P21Speakers_Fritsch.html\">bio<\/a>)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Parents are now blaming the Internet for their lack of control over their children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Previous generations never had cell phones and computers, but kids were scamming their parents and bullying their classmates long before Google and Facebook existed. The consequences, in fact, were more serious then since what went down took place in real time and space \u2014 not cyberspace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Today&#8217;s bully isn&#8217;t the big buster Billy who shows up with a posse of five on the playground to intimidate little Timmy with a firm shoulder shove or book-dumping. Cyber Billy opens an online account and torments Timmy with mean words and threats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Today&#8217;s high school hunk doesn&#8217;t drive to &#8220;Make-Out Point&#8221; when he can engage in &#8220;sexting&#8221; and get naked photos of his female classmates on his smart phone. And he can now virtually share her with his friends with a click.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">What is a parent to do, especially if other parents are less concerned about the way their children behave in cyberspace? What if their son is the cyber bully or their daughter is the scheming debutante calling other girls a whore? What if their daughter is being pressured into the world of sex in the Internet?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">How about an old-fashioned and simple solution?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">How much time do parents spend with their children, besides taking and picking them up from school? Are parents taking the time to have regular sit-down family dinners to discuss their day and let children in on the importance of family and how much this togetherness is cherished? Are parents taking time to know their children&#8217;s friends and their friend&#8217;s parents? Finally, where do children find the time to roam Facebook, the Internet and text for hours?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Between school, after school activities, homework and chores, where are children finding all this time for cyber-mischief?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Children should not have unaccounted and unsupervised time on their hands. Kids should always be supervised. Privacy has no place in a child&#8217;s life. The parents who believe in a right to privacy should think carefully about how they managed their own private time as teenagers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Children will always look for ways to skirt the rules. If the rules are already loose to non-existent, parents invite mass chaos, self-destruction and emotional and sometimes physical harm to their children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">It is na\u00efve for parents to go to school administrators for help with cyber-bullying and sexting occurring outside of school. At some point, parents must be parents. Schools can barely contain kids from homes with scant behavioral and disciplinary boundaries while at school, let alone be responsible for them after the bell rings. Parents need to get ahead of the game by controlling their children&#8217;s time and space from the outset.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">A parent can prevent a child from having a Facebook page. Computers can be located in family areas and locked down with secure passwords known only to parents. Phones can be Internet-disabled, and parents can openly monitor texts with full disclosure to their children to prevent sexual indiscretions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Better yet, parents can take the time to sit down and discuss \u2014 graphically and truthfully \u2014 the moral and psychological implications of their carnal impulses and desire to impugn others. This takes time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Judy, a parent recently profiled by the <em>New York Times<\/em>, caught on to this simple truth after she caught her daughter cyber-bullying. Judy took away all of her daughter&#8217;s electronics. &#8220;There were weeks of screaming and slammed doors,&#8221; but &#8220;as Judy took long walks with her daughter, the girl began to resemble the child Judy thought she&#8217;d known.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Parents must get to know their children and be part of their lives. We must know their stories and tell them ours. We must know their friends and their friends&#8217; friends, whether or not their kids think it&#8217;s an imposition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Loving our kids is not enough. Love takes time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMG Parents by Lisa Fritsch (bio) Parents are now blaming the Internet for their lack of control over their children. 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