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Old 10-10-2010, 07:41 AM
 
Location: Arlington, VA
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How a cell phone picture led to girl's suicide - CNN.com

What's going on today that kids are killing themselves over being bullied? Are they just not prepared for the realities of life?
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Old 10-10-2010, 07:53 AM
 
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Ok

#1 Where were the parents when this YOUNG girl was taking pics of her anatomy and sending it to boys?

#2 Totally agree with the school dropping the ball.

#3 This is what happens when MTV and everyone else is openly pushing sex and sex themed shows on kids who are clearly not prepared to deal with the consequences of their actions.
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Old 10-10-2010, 07:55 AM
 
Location: Arlington, VA
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Ok

#1 Where were the parents when this YOUNG girl was taking pics of her anatomy and sending it to boys?

#2 Totally agree with the school dropping the ball.

#3 This is what happens when MTV and everyone else is openly pushing sex and sex themed shows on kids who are clearly not prepared to deal with the consequences of their actions.
#3 ties into the rock bottom self esteem that girls have.

If your advice were taken, for number three, you'd be accused of being a conservative control freak telling women what they cannot do with their bodies.
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Old 10-10-2010, 08:00 AM
 
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Been called worse. You know but thats the thing, ok so you want to show essentially soft core porn on MTV at 3pm on a weekday this is the result. It's sad, having a young daughter myself I can't even imagine what that woman walked into and how she's even still alive but to me she shares some of the blame.
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Old 10-10-2010, 08:02 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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How a cell phone picture led to girl's suicide - CNN.com

What's going on today that kids are killing themselves over being bullied? Are they just not prepared for the realities of life?

Over protective parents, that are afraid to teach their kids, how cruel life really is.

Parents that don't teach that there are consequences for every action you do in life. Some good, some bad. Thinking about long term consequences of your actions(common sense) is rarely taught. Especially by single parent society, that don't spend the time educating their kids about life.
There is this big idea, our schools do that. They do. The hard way, as documented in this claim.
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Old 10-10-2010, 08:04 AM
 
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This is why good parents teach their children some values. Children of 13 aren't ready for sex and a girl of age 13 that believes she's only worthwhile as a sex object has problems. Emergency rooms are full of emotionally messed up girls age 15 or even younger who swallowed pills trying to kill themselves because some boy rejected them because they're too emotionally immature to have sex and then be rejected.
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Old 10-10-2010, 08:07 AM
 
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Been called worse. You know but thats the thing, ok so you want to show essentially soft core porn on MTV at 3pm on a weekday this is the result. It's sad, having a young daughter myself I can't even imagine what that woman walked into and how she's even still alive but to me she shares some of the blame.
It's not the fault of MTV if your kid see something there that you don't like. It's your fault for not putting parental controls on your television to filter out programs you don't think are appropriate.
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Old 10-10-2010, 08:12 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn
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How a cell phone picture led to girl's suicide - CNN.com

What's going on today that kids are killing themselves over being bullied? Are they just not prepared for the realities of life?
I believe you hit the nail on the head. There seems to be a generation that can't deal with anything the real world throws at them. You see the evidence for it every day right here on C-D: the continual reliance on YouTube videos and Wikipedia postings as "evidence" for whatever arguments they try to make. I'd like to think I'm wrong, but I see it all around me.
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Old 10-10-2010, 08:15 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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It's not the fault of MTV if your kid see something there that you don't like. It's your fault for not putting parental controls on your television to filter out programs you don't think are appropriate.

That is the exact over protection that causes this crap, I talked about in my last post on this thread.

Filter out programs, so you the parent don't have to parent. Parenting is not about, not letting them see something in life. Parenting is talking about what they see and explain the consequences and how it can be viewed as good and bad.

That is the copout that is bad parenting!!
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Old 10-10-2010, 08:18 AM
 
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It's not the fault of MTV if your kid see something there that you don't like. It's your fault for not putting parental controls on your television to filter out programs you don't think are appropriate.
Oh, I totally agree. That being said there's something corrupt and nefarious about a network that aims it's programing towards "tweens" and contains that much inappropriate material.
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