Today I received a snapchat from my daughter’s personal ipad
– so I opened it and it was from a high school senior boy who thought the
snapchat was going to my other daughter (she has her snapchat on my
phone because we have not supplied her with a smartphone) who is a junior. It was inappropriate and fortunately it didn’t
contain pics of any inappropriate body parts.
However, it got me thinking!
How sad is it that a high school boy would feel
compelled to send such an ugly statement?
That he doesn’t have enough respect of the opposite sex – that they find
sending snap chats with vulgar language funny.
So heads up boys—take Kate Pinke’s
advice: Dear young men…http://thepinkepost.com/2013/09/dear-young-men-of-social-media/.
What concerns me is that my daughters have to be exposed
to that behavior and then say ‘mom, everybody talks that way—it’s no big deal!”
The other day I read a post from a mother of high school boys
that gently tell his Face book friends of the opposite sex to not post inappropriate
selfies (/http://givenbreath.com/2013/09/03/fyi-if-youre-a-teenage-girl/). I thought it was a very good reminder for
girls to think before they posted photos.
I have learned that peer pressure is daunting in high school
and it is hard for girls to be conservative and hold on to high morals—so what
kind of encouragement can I give to my daughters and my young son to stand tall and turn away
from such vulgar behavior when it is running rampant in our high schools—thanks
to technology?
It cuts both ways!
