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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace
You may well be right with regards to bullies existing and drugs and alcohol being available back in the 80's and even further back. However, in going home, most had a safe haven from the outside world and I hope everyone had that. Through social media however, kids can be bullied and attacked In the relative safety in their own homes. That's where I think the current generation and ours differ.
The real tragedy is the incredible number of kids taking their own lives over what we as adults consider to be trivial matters. It's not trivial to these kids though and their losses are real, especially to their families and loved ones.
By the way, we did the same thing with beer cans taped together or pipes and tennis balls too. We were so dumb.  |
Parents need to step in with social media. My wife and I monitored what our daughters were up to on the internet. There was a time limit for using the internet a well. Referring back to my earlier post parents currenlty treat their kids like adults and fully expect adult like choices. It is not the case as we see. I do not blame social media. I blame the parents that do not monitor their kids. And that is on both ends. Parents of kids who doing the bully crap and parents of the kids getting bullied. As far as taking of own lives, it happened in the 80's as well. I recall one incident my freshman year in college. A student entered her dorm room. As her room mate watched she took her desk chair to the window, stepped up on the chair and stepped out the window. Seven stories.
Tennis ball cannons!!
