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Date: 9 Mar 2007 06:07:20 -0800
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On Mar 9, 9:05�am, 4s00th <4s0...@thetruth.com> wrote:
> On 9 Mar 2007 05:36:31 -0800, "bob&carole"
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> <bobandcarol...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >If you have children and you watched any of "Dateline's" "To Catch a
> >wonder: Could this happen to my kids?
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> >Well, there's one piece of advice everyone gives parents to keep their
> >children safe from predators and all the other scary parts of the
> >common, it's now trite.
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> >It might also be the most commonly ignored advice in parenting today.
> >According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, twice as many kids have
> >computers in their bedrooms today as did five years ago.
>
> >Forget the bedtime story. These days, many kids go to bed, pull up the
> >covers and just start chatting with friends online.
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> >Perhaps that explains why so many kids are so sleepy in school these
> >will tell anyone who'll listen that classrooms are full of bleary-eyed
> >kids who've been up all night text-messaging and e-mailing their
> >20 percent of children there sleep at least two hours less each night
> >than their parents, and she blamed computers, games and televisions in
> >the bedroom.
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> >Unmonitored bedroom Internet access exposes kids to awful people, like
> >those who showed up at "Dateline's" rented house full of hidden
> >cameras. But even if you mistakenly believe your child is safe from
> >predators, a bedroom computer creates another, less dramatic but much
> >that two-thirds of kids are sleep-deprived because of gadgets. And in
> >preliminary results of research now being conducted by i-Safe America,
> >22 percent of student-age kids admit they send instant messages while
> >their parents think they're asleep.
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> >Family therapist Susan Shankle says the problem is now so common she
> >asks questions about the location of child computers in her initial
> >client assessment.
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> >"I ask if there are computers in the bedroom, and 'Are you sure your
> >take them out, but often the advice isn't followed. It's a big
> >problem, and it's only getting bigger."
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> >10 percent of 8- to 10-year-olds have bedroom Internet
> >Foundation released a study in May indicating that 31 percent of kids
> >8-18 have a computer in the bedroom, and 20 percent have Internet
> >access -- double the amount from five years ago. One in 10 children
> >between 8 and 10 years old now has bedroom Internet access. And 1 in 4
> >high-school-aged kids uses instant message software in the bedroom.
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> >"It seems to be a trend, and I suspect it will continue," said Vicky
> >Rideout, a researcher at Kaiser.
>
> >Why are parents ignoring the bedroom computer advice, even after
> >warnings as dire as "Dateline's" predator program's? One reason is
> >convenience, Rideout said.
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> >"Parents don't want competition for the computer, so they give kids
> >rooms, too."
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> >Wireless makes it worse
> >There was a time when a bedroom computer, disconnected from the
> >Ethernet cable into the kids' room, there was no way for kids to get
> >wireless networks have exploded in popularity. If you don't have it,
> >technology, there's really no way to keep this floating Internet out
> >other than keeping the computer out.
>
> >Perhaps many parents think they can keep watch over computer use in
> >the bedroom. Fat chance, says family therapist Barbara Melton. Kids
> >will go to great lengths to outfox their parents and stay online when
> >they should be sleeping, she said.
>
> >"I knew one 16-year-old who stuffed a towel under the door so his
> >(parents) couldn't see the light from the computer," she said. "Other
> >kids dim their monitors.... This might be new to parents, but if you
> >bring this up with kids, they all know about it."
>
> >Staring at a computer is also among the worst things someone can do
> >before going to bed, Shankle said, because it activates the brain in a
> >computer use at least 30 minutes before bedtime.
>
> >Increased restlessness
> >that late-night computer use, fed by the addictive quality of the
> >Internet, might even be contributing to increased diagnosis of
> >attention deficit disorders, Shankle said.
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> >"Sleep deprivation and too much computer look like ADHD," said
> >Shankle.
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> >All this late-night Internet use might seem anathema to some adults,
> >who couldn't imagine staying up all night to type messages to
> >the Child Digital Media Center at Georgetown University, said
> >teenagers' diurnal sleep rhythms are quite different from adults',
> >fans that flame.
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> >Calvert recommends keeping computers out of the bedroom, but she
> >thinks it's even more important to teach kids about the potential
> >pitfalls of being online all the time.
>
> >"They're going to have access to technology. If they don't have it,
> >their friends do. So parents need to educate them and empower them,"
> >she said.
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> >With handhelds coming, it'll only get harder
> >That's good advice, given that new technology means the Internet,
> >increasingly, is not limited to computers anyway. Plenty of cell
> >keeping a computer out of the bedroom will someday soon provide only a
> >small measure of safety, if any, said Kaiser's Rideout.
>
> >"As it all jumps onto handhelds, those rules will be irrelevant," she
> >said -- making a parent's role in separating the Sandman from the
> >Internet all the more essential, both to keep kids safe from predators
> >and to get them ready for school the next day.
>
> Gee, bo0by, an intelligent article that makes sense and actually tries
> to do something positive about stopping children from being molested
> ... I'd've never thought you capable. Thank you.
You pedos hate it when we plan ahead of you, don't you?
>
> I'm wondering, though, wouldn't it be better if we continue to allow
> computers in the bedroom since that's where kids are more likely to do
> homework, but put better limits on Internet access? There are software
> packages that allow parents to block Internet access at specific times
> and limit the total time a kid can access the Internet.
>
> I get the point about sleep, and I think it's possible that the kids
> would still stay up and play games -- but how many of them already
> have game consoles in their bedroom?
>
> I understand that you can't watch your kids 24/7 -- but there are
> other ways of watching out for their safety, and parents need to know
> what they are and how they work and be willing to use them. And all
> you people who worry about child molesters grooming children -- the
> more a parent is involved in his/her child's life, the less likely
> that they will fall prey to predators. Let's face it -- the predators
> make use of the fact that kids want and need adult attention and
> affection. Take that away from them!
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