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UK Kids Hurt By 'Pornification' of British Society 

1/22/2013

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UK children are being seriously harmed by a "striptease culture in British schools and society" fuelled by the wide availability of internet pornography, a senior Labour figure warns today. 

Diane Abbott, a shadow health minister in Britain, will tonight warn that the "pornification" of culture is causing children to be "hypersexualised" at an early age.

At a meeting of the Fabian Women's Network, she will say parents are struggling to cope with the tide of sexual images available on social networking websites and the wider internet.

"For so long, it's been argued that overt, public displays of sexuality are an enlightened liberation," she will say.

"But I believe that for many, the pressure of conforming to hypersexualisation and its pitfalls is a prison. And the permanence of social media and technology can be a life sentence.

Ms Abbott will call for tougher internet controls to stop children getting access to pornographic images. She will say children should not be under pressure to engage in "sexting", where they send explicitly sexual images of themselves to others.


"I want to highlight what I believe is the rise of a secret garden, striptease culture in British schools and society, which has been put beyond the control of British families by fast-developing technology, and an increasingly pornified British culture," she will say.

"There's something wrong with a society as a whole when children say they have no one to turn to for advice because their parents - outwitted by technology, and struggling to juggle work and home life - don't really know what's going on.

"There's something wrong with a society when many young girls of all classes are pressurised into exposing themselves online, and are then humiliated.

"There's something wrong with a society that normalises children of every background 'sexting' from their bedrooms."
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"There's something wrong with a society as a whole when children say they have no one to turn to for advice because their parents - outwitted by technology, and struggling to juggle work and home life - don't really know what's going on"


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Claire Perry, a Tory MP, has been campaigning for tougher internet controls on pornography and age verification of internet users. The Prime Minister has agreed to some stricter rules for households with children but stopped short of an automatic ban on pornography unless the user opts in.

It comes after new resesarch from Australia found the average age at which children first watch pornography is just 11

Australian researchers Maree Crabbe and David Corlett said children were turning to adult films because schools were not handling the positive aspects of sex.

The research found 88 per cent of scenes in pornographic films showed an element of physical aggression, with most directed at the female participant.

Pupils also appeared to believe that sexual practices shown in porn were normal features of sexual relationships.

The researchers said pupils should be taught how to evaluate porn in sex education lessons.

Last week, a separate survey found more young people were having sex under the age of consent. Among 16 to 24-year-old women, more than a quarter had lost their virginity under the age of 16.

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Twitter Kids are Losing Touch With The Outdoors, says Perth Doctor

6/21/2012

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A leading Perth paediatrician is urging WA parents to  reduce their kids’  “screen time”.


THE NATURAL environment is being replaced by a digital world for today's children and is at risk of never being re-discovered, a prominent Perth doctor has warned.

Dr David Roberts said the increasing reliance on technology as entertainment for children had seen a rapid, disturbing decline in outdoor play.

Dr Roberts, chief executive of Nature Play WA, said parents were also partly to blame by restricting their children's outdoor activities out of fear that they may come to harm.

"There is a television in every second child's bedroom, and then the ubiquitous hand-held device to help them tolerate the perceived boredom of the still, the quiet times"

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Leading WA paediatrician David Roberts said the increasing reliance on technology as entertainment for children had seen a rapid, disturbing decline in outdoor play.
Speaking at the launch of a new outdoor education centre at Kings Park, Dr Roberts said the way children were being raised had changed more rapidly than any time in human history.

"Physical activity has always been about play outdoors, and this is being lost. There are many causes, but in the past two generations, the principal culprit has been electronic screen exposure," he said.

"The impact upon children of this cultural change is seen in their health and psychological development."

Dr Roberts, a consultant paediatrician and former Australian Medical Association WA branch president, said the trend became evident when he asked children to make three "magic wishes" when taking a medical history.

"With alarming regularity, they devote at least two and often all three wishes to electronic screens," he said.

"Likewise there is a television in every second child's bedroom, and then the ubiquitous hand-held device to help them tolerate the perceived boredom of the still, the quiet times."

He said while children from previous generations discovered the natural world as a virtue of childhood, "that is no longer the case, and for our culture, it probably will never be rediscovered."

"And attempts to simply wind the clock back to the childhood experience so many of us enjoyed is simply unattainable," he said.

Dr Roberts said society must find new ways to enable children to engage with the outdoors, and said the new facilities at Kings Park were a "good start."

The education centre includes 20 "living classrooms", such as tree logs for seating under shady trees, a jetty in the Water Corporation Wetland and a concrete-lined fire pit facility for Aboriginal story telling.

A report from the University of WA, commissioned last year for the state government, found electronic screen use, such as watching television or DVDs, and using computers, video games and portable devices, was the most common leisure activity of youth in Australia.
It found a large majority of children and adolescents in Australia exceed the recommended maximum of two hours a day of screen use for leisure, and the reduction in time spent outdoors was resulting in negative outcomes, such as obesity, poor sleep habits, loneliness and depression.



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Welcome to E-Kindy Kids!

5/22/2012

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Isolated families with young children in Queensland are being sought to be part of an 'e-kindy' trial.

The Brisbane School of Distance Education (BSDE) will pilot an e-kindy program from next term for three or four-year-olds who cannot access a kindergarten.

Part of the program will be delivered by a teacher using web-based technology and parents or home tutors will also assist in "hands-on" activities.

BSDE spokeswoman Stacie Hansel says some of the program will be delivered via the web.

"Children will be invited to attend lessons via 'Illuminate', which is a web-based interactive platform," she said.

"The children will do their lessons through a qualified teacher - either that, or through a telephone via a teleconference.

"Technology is something that they are born around and born with using, so it is certainly a skill that they will use as they get older."

Ms Hansel says parents have been asking for this sort of scheme for many years.

"It's an alternative for our rural families who cannot access a centre-based kindergarten - to provide them access to an at-home kindergarten program," she said.

"The pilot will actually commence next semester and lessons will commence.

"We believe initially they'll commence one-on-one, building up certainly by the end of the year into small groups of two to three children."

Ainslee McArthur from St Lawrence, south of Mackay in north Queensland, already home tutors two of her children and says she is enrolled her son in e-kindy.

"Those children are already sitting in a home school room," she said.

"For them to have some interaction with a teacher like their older siblings, I think that's a good thing."

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Top Seven Tips to Keeping Kids Safe Online

5/2/2012

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By Kenna McHugh
TODAY'S kids are growing up in a world where the Web is part of their everyday lives, social networking sites have always existed and buying music online is as common as browsing record stores once was for their parents. But the more your kids explore online, the more they are at risk from predators and the more they put your PC and privacy at risk.

To help ensure kids’ Internet safety, parents need to know how to educate their children about staying safe online and manage their kids’ Internet experiences. And although the task may sound challenging, there are some websites that offer some simple solutions or tips that every family can use to help make their kids’ online experiences safe ones.

SafeKids, FBI and GetNetWise are a few sites that are helpful. Families can peruse those sites to help them. In the meantime, here are eight simple tips to keep kids online experience safe.

  1. Share the Web with your kids – and use this time to talk about appropriate online behavior.
  2. Teach your kids to trust their instincts – and tell you if they feel nervous about anything online.
  3. If your kids use instant messaging, visit chat rooms or play online video games that require a login name, help them choose a name that doesn’t reveal any personal information.
  4. Explain to your kids that part of staying safe online includes keeping their “real world” information private – so they should never give out their address, phone number, or personal details, including where they go to school or like to play.
  5. Tell your kids that they should never meet online friends in person – people aren’t always who they say they are.
  6. Explain that making illegal copies of other people’s work, such as music, video games, etc., is just like stealing it from a store.
  7. Teach your kids that not everything they read or see online is true. Encourage them to ask you if they’re not sure.
Webroots suggests that besides talking with your children about internet usage, one of the most critical components of keeping kids safe online is managing their Web-based activities. Using a security solution such as Webroot Internet Security Complete might be helpful and provide protection from questionable Websites by providing users with a security rating next to each search result as well as a warning if users attempt to visit a malicious site. It’s a good idea to partner with your kids to help them develop good online habits. Once those habits are truly owned by your kids, you can give them more and more freedom to explore and enjoy the wealth of great information the Web has to offer.

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To help ensure kids’ Internet safety, parents need to know how to educate their children about staying safe online and manage their kids’ Internet experiences.
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Who's Protecting YourTwitter Baby?

4/8/2012

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Everything your child publicly posts online is being recorded and archived. And that information could wreak havoc on your child’s future.
In the past, decisions to hire an employee were based on the information listed on their resume, a few phone calls, and an in-person interview. That’s about it.
Today, I don’t know a single HR department that doesn’t conduct a thorough Google and/or Facebook search on every job applicant — before they even read the entire resume.

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Guideline suggestions

What sort of social media guidelines do you need to create in order to protect your children and ensure their successful future? Here are some suggestions to get you started. Decide what social media networks your children can use. Networks come and go so you’ll need to make periodic adjustments to what’s on the “approved” list. As a starting point, the current top social networks you can start looking at are; Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Foursquare, What topics can they talk about? Or to simplify, what topics can’t they talk about?

  • Which social networks can they post to?
  • What type of photos and video can they post online?
  • Will your guidelines discourage them from using profanity?
  • Can they post their email address online (I’d personally recommend against this)?
  • What about your home address, and phone number?
  • What about posting family details (names, photos, birthdate’s, announcing when and where they’re going on vacation, etc.)
  • Announcing vacation details (when, where and how long)?
  • Who else are they unknowingly revealing information about?

Aside from the information they personally post online, think about establishing guidelines for the types of situations your children should avoid. Situations where other people (friends, bystanders, and even boyfriends and girlfriends) can easily take photos, audio, and video of your children and post it on a social network. Even if your children aren’t the subject of the photo, their mere presence could still be damaging.

Monitoring is your friend Once you’ve decided on some ground rules, it’s time to think about how you’re going to monitor their social media travels.

Are you going to Friend them on Facebook? Follow them on Twitter? Set up Google alerts or perhaps use a social media monitoring tool?

You have a lot of options and tools available to you — and you should consider using them. Because your children will be online. They will be connecting with friends and posting more information in the future than we can even imagine.

And as much as the Internet can provide a wealth of knowledge, interaction and entertainment. It can also be the equivalent of digital quicksand that consumes everything that falls into it — including your child’s online reputation.

Have you considered creating social media guidelines for your children? What suggestions do you have?

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How much information are we sharing?
  • By 2011, 20.2 million children under 11 will go online at least once per month — rising to 24.9 million kids by 2014. source
  • 66% of US children and teens ages 8 to 18 had a mobile phone. (2009)
  • Kids under 18 send and receive roughly 2,800 texts per month source
  • 35 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute source
  • 95 million updates posted to Twitter every hour. source
  • 2.5 billion photos uploaded each month to Facebook source
  • According to two Pew Internet Research survey’s of 700 and 935 teens, 38% of respondents ages 12 to 14 said they had an online profile of some sort.
  • 61% percent of those in the study, ages 12 to 17, said they use social-networking sites to send messages to friends, and 42% said they do so every day.
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Additional Reading:
  • Social Screening: How Companies Are Using Social Media To Hire and Fire Employees
  • Young Children Consuming More Digital Medias
  • [Infographic] How Social Media is Reshaping College Admissions
  • Internet Safety and Security Tips for Parents
  • 80% of Children Under Age 5 Use the Internet [STATS]
  • 9 in 10 Teens Have Witnessed Bullying on Social Networks
  • [REPORT] Always Connected: The new digital media habits of young children
  • When Should We Introduce Social Media to Kids?
  • A Pocket Guide to Social Media and Kids
  • Social networks and kids: How young is too young?
  • Too Young to Text?
  • Corporate Social Media Policies: The Good, the Mediocre, and the Ugly
  • Parents need to stay aware of kids’ use of social media, warn about predators
  • Connecting with Kids Online: The playground goes virtual
  • Seven Ways to Keep Your Kids Safe Online
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