Sexting

Children with cell phones are setting a new and very worrying trend for all parents. Sexting is sending sexually explicit material lewd text and or photos. It normally starts with a girl sending her boy friend a photo of herself, but youngsters split up, and the boy will then pass the photo around the school. With the cell phones today these photos can be easily up loaded to numerous sites like Myspace. Most teenagers think of this as just flirting and a bit of fun. What they do not realise is the seriousness of it. There have been numerous cases where kids from as young as 11 to 17 have been charged with possession of sexually explicit photos on there cell phones and now face serious charges. So you must educate you children in the proper use of their phone, talk to them, make them aware this is happening in schools, ask them if they would like their naked body plastered on the internet for the world to see. Make them understand that when they send a photo from their phone they have no control over it