| That our children in the 21st Century have been | | | | It is our duty as custodians of our children to monitor |
| robbed of their childhood is a fact that does not | | | | what our children are reading and watching on |
| need belaboring. With the advent of the Internet, we | | | | television as well as accessing on the Internet. No |
| kissed childhood for our kids a long and tearful | | | | child likes to be monitored but who said parenting |
| goodbye! I do not think that parents in the 21st | | | | was a democracy? |
| Century could ever give their children too much | | | | When I was growing up I thought my parents were |
| information. With the click of the mouse our innocent | | | | the worst dictators that I had ever met. Today I am |
| children can access more information than we could | | | | so grateful that they took their role as parents |
| ever dream of giving them. | | | | seriously. Their first duty was never to please me |
| I believe that what we as parents need to do is to | | | | but to help me. They taught me to make right |
| counter the information that our children are getting | | | | choices whose consequences I would not regret later |
| bombarded with on the Internet. | | | | on in life. That principle should be no different today |
| We need to spend more time with our children and | | | | as our children are assaulted and bombarded with |
| take a greater interest in the knowledge that they | | | | unfiltered information from television, the Internet |
| are getting not only from the Internet but also from | | | | and their peers. |
| their peers. Children are accessing pornography off | | | | Our children are getting too much information and it is |
| the Internet at a younger and younger age. What | | | | robbing them of their childhood. The sad thing is that |
| was rated 'R' when we were growing up is rated 'PG' | | | | many times parents do not even come into the |
| today. Young children are watching brazenly, what | | | | picture. While the parents are out chasing dollars so |
| would make their grand parents reach for their | | | | that they can keep up with the Jones' their kids are |
| oxygen masks! | | | | 8yrs old going on 16, thanks to the Internet. |