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Originally Posted by PIGL
On the bullying issue - I think it's more prevalent these days because of the advent and wider adoption of social media. Kids have always been cruel and mean but they haven't always had access to the broader audiences and tools afforded to them by social media. Parents need to spend more time monitoring what their kids are doing and being exposed to on social media and help them to navigate through that world (both to handle adverse situations and be better internet/social media citizens). I wish more parents (I am a father of three) would spend more time on that issue than on preventing their kids from getting a few skinned knees and rounds of stitches because they were playing outside unsupervised.
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I would agree with this to a certain extent.
But kids put themselves in even worse situations now than they did before. Now 12 year olds send nude pics to eachother and are shocked when they are sent to others, which is much more shameful than what generally happened when I was in school.