Here's some good news. Good News
Also, my eldest and youngest child (I only have the one, you know) turns thirteen tomorrow. She doesn't actually read my blog but if she did I would take this opportunity to wish her a Happy Birthday. Turns out that in this amazing digital age we live in, thirteen is important.
1. Thirteen is the age at which you can get your own you-tube account without lying about your age. You tube is seriously one of the most amazing places for kids to hang out. You've got the Vlog Brothers and Charlie is so Cool Like and The Five Awesome Girls and a ton of great role models. You also have pictures of boobs. It's a mixed blessing.
2. Thirteen is when you can do the same with Facebook... My niece who is 14 is on Facebook and has her age listed as 24 and what makes me nuts about this is that her picture looks older than she is... and I want to call my sister and scream about the whole thing... but I haven't yet. Maybe after I calm down about it.
3. Deviant Art... Jasmine has a deviant art account with her age slightly misstated because she's turning thirteen tomorrow and she really, really, really wanted to enter a design contest for the All Caps album.
Is there a point to all this? Seriously, I don't know, but as a parent I am thrilled about all this technology and also scared as heck. Parents, know what your kid is doing online. It's not like reading their diary... It's more like not letting them have the car keys till they are ready to drive.
2 comments:
Remember the movie Breakfast Club? Remember Anthony Michael Hall's character had a fake ID? Remember his stated reason for having it?
So he could vote.
Maybe there's a legit reason why your niece's account says she's 24, but it's tough to think of one.
Kids just don't know what kinds of trouble they can get into... they think they understand, until it's too late to protect them. Parenthood is humbling.
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