Monday, March 8, 2010

Do as I say...

I blogged before about sexting. It's unfortunately something that continues to happen and it's very sad when you hear about teens doing it since it has the potential to have so many negative and long-ranging consequences. There have been several young teenage girls in my practice who have been involved in sexting. In general, the parents are horrified but the girls themselves, while embarrassed about being caught, don't understand what is so wrong. And to be honest, it's getting harder and harder to teach a kid why taking naked (or half-naked pics) of yourself and sending them out into the electronic world is a bad idea when people who are only a couple of years older than you can win prizes like a home theater system for doing the exact same thing.

And we wonder why our kids are becoming so messed up.

It makes me ill.