Sunday, September 16, 2007
Hw 7: Applying Graff, Chapter 3 to "My So-called Blog"
Personally, being a teenager myself, I believe that it is crucial for parents to be monitoring what their children write online but I feel that there should be some boundaries as well. I feel that there is a lot of danger with parents allowing their kids access to the computer and online world, without adhering to certain rules and principles that they set up to go along with it. In “My So-called Blog” Emily Nussbaum states that, “Ninety percent of those with blogs are between the ages of 13 and 29.” (Kline and Burstein 349) Children among this age group often are unware and unexperienced when it comes to maturity and the real issues in the world. They are too naïve to fully participate and understand some of the things that are out their on the web. Parents need to allow their children space, but sometimes the comfort of having protection is better than none at all. Now, it is extremely easy for people to search, find and even communicate with one another. Emily Nussbaum herself writes, “The private experience of adolescence- a period traditionally marked by seizures of self-consciousness and personal confessions wrapped in layers and hidden in a sock drawer- has been made public.” (Kline and Burstein 351) No longer is the internet as safe as it once was. It is clear that world is a safe place and no matter what there is always going to be struggles and dangers, but when it comes to the vast and broad space of the internet, it seems endless. In other words, Emily Nussbaum belives that the problem that arises is when a “particularly scandalous site will gain a wider readership,” ( Kline and Burstein 358). For the most part, this site will attract the teenage group because they are naïve and unaware of certain places to go on the internet. Parents need to monitor their children, not to be overprotective and to control their life but to protect their children from the unknown, which even them, themselves are unaware of.
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I completely agree with what Kathryn’s post. It is very crucial to monitor your children to a certain extent. I know kids in my middle school where their parents let them do whatever they wanted and the result was not good. Kathryn states that it is good to let your children have a certain amount of privacy. In this day in age, the world is such a dangerous place to live that too much freedom could result in nothing but bad news. Being a teenager I know that there are certain things that I want to do but know I just shouldn’t. In the middle school age kids may not have enough will power to hold themselves back. This is why parents should be there to monitor their kids. My post stated that parents should not invade their children’s privacy, but reading Kathryn’s post changed my mind.
You have some good points here and I mostly agree with what you've said. However one thing that was a little off was where you said that most bloggers are between the ages of 13 and 29. You then stated that children among this age group are often unaware and unexperienced when it comes to maturity and the real issues in the world. This may apply to ages 13 through say 17 or 18, but 29? That's pushing it.
I thought that Kathryn and I shared a lot of the same views in our blogs. I agreed with her that children should be monitored in middle school. Everyday on the news you hear about another child being abducted because they were talking to a child molestor on myspace. It's sad to say but the world is a scary place and parents should look out for there children more. i would never make my child feel uncomfortable by constanting keeping an eye on them but i would make sure they were not doing anything wrong or dangerous. Kathyrn shared many of these same ideas in her blog.
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