"Sexting".

[Bill Sikes]

Originally Posted by fuzzywuzzy

We also have boys who have been warned charged and now on sex registers.

what people have to remember though is that he girls are liable too. They are producing and distributing 'Child prnography' .....and they don't even relise it.

This is a danger that people are often unaware of. If children were denied access to telephones that can transmit images like this, of course, the issue wouldn't arise. That, or other prevention, would involve parental responsibility, however...

[Betty Boop]

My son has been begging for a phone for over a year, I've held fast and said no. He asked for one again for his birthday just last month, again I considered it carefully and then said no as I am aware of some of the stuff that had been sent around the primary school.
Hey ho, no worries, his dad bought him one no discussion, no checking to make sure I hadn't, luckily it has no camera though, just a basic nokia brick thank god but I will be checking it regularly!

[fuzzywuzzy]

heard a segment on ABC radio where they talk to police every morning. The Youth liason officer was talking about how the kids don't even have to remove their phone from their pockets to text anymore . (mobile phones are banned in the classrooms now but not in the playground ). At one point teachers counldnt understand why there was so many kids surrounding fights at school . This was the reason . A child could be on the other side of the school and get a message to come watch a fight, before mobile phones he would have been oblivious to it.

The problem with sexting is that the minute you send a pic (during school hours ) everyone has seen it before the end of last period.

what I find really concerning is that girls are doing this stuff on Youtube as well, with a much wider audience. Youtube to get out of it legally only remove the vids if there is nudity . Some of these girls are performing erotic acts with their clothes on and getting away with it, and so may I add is youtube.

a huge big media warning like the TAC and RTA ads are needed to warn girls and boys of the laws.

[fuzzywuzzy]

Originally Posted by Betty Boop

My son has been begging for a phone for over a year, I've held fast and said no. He asked for one again for his birthday just last month, again I considered it carefully and then said no as I am aware of some of the stuff that had been sent around the primary school.
Hey ho, no worries, his dad bought him one no discussion, no checking to make sure I hadn't, luckily it has no camera though, just a basic nokia brick thank god but I will be checking it regularly!

I've told my boys that if I can't get into their phones or I don't know the passwords then they don't get their phones. And I confiscate them every night. and they are not allowed to delete the history .

Your boy will still be able to recieve pics on his phone?

My ex uses something very clever . you can check the logs of the phone through your computer. A pssword comes with the phone so you can get on line and check all comings and goings.

I told my son this and suddenly he wasn't going through so many calls .....interesting.

[Betty Boop]

Originally Posted by fuzzywuzzy

heard a segment on ABC radio where they talk to police every morning. The Youth liason officer was talking about how the kids don't even have to remove their phone from their pockets to text anymore . (mobile phones are banned in the classrooms now but not in the playground ). At one point teachers counldnt understand why there was so many kids surrounding fights at school . This was the reason . A child could be on the other side of the school and get a message to come watch a fight, before mobile phones he would have been oblivious to it.

The problem with sexting is that the minute you send a pic (during school hours ) everyone has seen it before the end of last period.

what I find really concerning is that girls are doing this stuff on Youtube as well, with a much wider audience. Youtube to get out of it legally only remove the vids if there is nudity . Some of these girls are performing erotic acts with their clothes on and getting away with it, and so may I add is youtube.

a huge big media warning like the TAC and RTA ads are needed to warn girls and boys of the laws.

Have you watched any of the latest music video's lately, they are all full of pouting temptresses scantily clad and performing erotic acts, this is what our teenagers are trying to emulate, it's disgusting and giving youngsters the complete wrong image of a 'woman'

[oscar]

Originally Posted by fuzzywuzzy

I've told my boys that if I can't get into their phones or I don't know the passwords then they don't get their phones. And I confiscate them every night. and they are not allowed to delete the history .

Your boy will still be able to recieve pics on his phone?

My ex uses something very clever . you can check the logs of the phone through your computer. A pssword comes with the phone so you can get on line and check all comings and goings.

I told my son this and suddenly he wasn't going through so many calls .....interesting.

I agree with Bill. I just don't ever remember this being done in my day before all this technology that kids have now. That's half the problem, the mobile phones, pc's etc that you can photograph and video on and send on. It's a similar thing to 'Happy slapping' that we had a trend here for recently. Maybe some of the kids are really just naive in thinking that it's only the person they are forwarding it to, that will see it. They just don't think at the time that it will be used in malice soon after. Having said that, there are kids out there who get a kick from it obviousley.

[Betty Boop]

Originally Posted by fuzzywuzzy

I've told my boys that if I can't get into their phones or I don't know the passwords then they don't get their phones. And I confiscate them every night. and they are not allowed to delete the history .

Your boy will still be able to recieve pics on his phone?

My ex uses something very clever . you can check the logs of the phone through your computer. A pssword comes with the phone so you can get on line and check all comings and goings.

I told my son this and suddenly he wasn't going through so many calls .....interesting.

At the moment he's lost interest in it, it's sat on the side here next to me. He might find more interest in it when he starts at secondary school in September.
He's not able to receive photo's, no, it really is just a basic model.
Yes I can check a log on my phone via the internet, will have to look into that regarding his.

[oscar]

Originally Posted by Betty Boop

Have you watched any of the latest music video's lately, they are all full of pouting temptresses scantily clad and performing erotic acts, this is what our teenagers are trying to emulate, it's disgusting and giving youngsters the complete wrong image of a 'woman'

Thing is, do they realise it's disgusting? I became a 'teenager' very late into my teens because my parents just wouldn't let me grow up as some parents do with their kids now. I used to think they were snobs and prudes because even at the age of 15. I was not allowed to watch tv such as 'Steptoe and Son', 'On the buses' or 'Til death us do part'. That's why I love watching all the re-runs now

[fuzzywuzzy]

Oscar I asked the Dad of a girl here why she did it . And basically she just thought it was a bit of fun between very close friends . and I can understand that . Conversations that wind up in lots of giggling and tempting. *shrugs* I dont know maybe it's the same as spin the bottle the naughty kids used to get up to when I was a kid. Unfortunetly with many more connotations to it.

[Betty Boop]

Originally Posted by oscar

Thing is, do they realise it's disgusting? I became a 'teenager' very late into my teens because my parents just wouldn't let me grow up as some parents do with their kids now. I used to think they were snobs and prudes because even at the age of 15. I was not allowed to watch tv such as 'Steptoe and Son', 'On the buses' or 'Til death us do part'. That's why I love watching all the re-runs now

My 'disgusting' is in reference to the constantly trickled image of what it is to be a woman, there's no variation within the pop world, they are portrayed as 'perfect' sex bombs materialistically and they are all over opinionated 'I will kick your ass if you so much as cross me' types with bad attitude .
There have always been those types around but they used to be in the minority, you always had the other 'nice girl' option as the majority though.
My daughter at seven doesn't understand but my boy at twelve is starting to, I really don't want him to think women are just brazen sex slaves!

My Mum would never let me watch Kenny Everett, pity it was on the night she went out and big bro would let me watch it, although to be honest, most of it went straight over my head My Mum was a prude, I'm not, I'm open and honest with my two, I just object to the continuous stream of overt sexuality being transmitted via music videos