Notes

Wonder Woman, the Cyberspace Chaperone
As an individual mother of two teenage girls, it is possible to only imagine some to the worries I could muster on any given day at any random moment. Being a communications major, helps make my job a little easier. I stand firm in the fact that parents need to open the lines of communication making use of their children.

My daughters understand my stance on teenage sex and pregnancy, since I myself was something of these and shared my experiences with them. My girls both know the ages I was when I had them both and how difficult being a teenage mom was, and continues to be. Now, as luck would have it, not merely are both my darlings honors students, but I strongly encourage them to speak to me about everything. Stored feelings and stereotypical taboos of my generation's past, are if you ask me, the leading reason behind miscommunication between parents and children. Nothing should be off limits in a parent-child relationship. When we shut out our children, we force them to show elsewhere, festering insecurities, resulting in drug use, gang affiliations, early pregnancies, STDs, and in worst cases, child trafficking.

With the web ranking number one as the "must-do" activity of this generation, meaning our preteens and teens alike, it really is our duties as parents to monitor their online interactions and relationships. This takes away from precious family face-to -face time. Keeping conversations and interactions accessible is a good start. I think about this being truly a "cyberspace chaperone". In the event that you wouldn't let your kids have company over in your own home when you aren't home, then why can you allow them to roam the net alone?

In this cyber age, nothing is sacred anymore, not even harmless, fun family photos. We as parents have to encourage our children the importance of privacy and restrict their friends/buddies to "who you know" only.

Challenging creepy crawlers lurking in the shadows of cyberspace, you have to be extra cautious who our little ones consider friends!

After reading an article in Essence magazine called "Black Girls on the market", by Jeannine Amber, my guards are on constant patrol. WHEN I go through the pages, tears filled my eyes, limiting my view before initial blink which released the cluster of hot fluid, careening down my cheek onto the pages; blurring what I was reading. The feature gave graphic accounts of how our precious babies are forcefully taken and then gang raped for days, instilling fear into them. Our daughters are beaten and tossed out to work the streets by their pimps - who constitute to $500,000 annually if he's got 3 girls with a daily quota of $500 each.

Let's remember the hand that sites like Craigslist's Personal Service section have in this atrocity. These predators can enter our daughter's bedrooms through the open window of the World Wide Web. And these young victims are as tender as 11 yrs . old.

I guess the true blow of the truth is that doesn't just happen in under-developed countries. more info is as close as our next door neighbors - and even closer; to close for comfort if you ask me!

Whatever happened to the good ole days when fretting about girls getting their periods was normal? Growing up, I was forbidden to state the word "sex" and even discuss it for that matter, in my own predominantly Catholic household. In fact, I had to marry my daughter's father in order to avoid family disgrace and shame. But I really believe my experiences enable me to equip and educate my girls into not following in my own footsteps. I empower them to make a better path. That is a serious issue and my daughters each know how much I value honest communications. We've girl's nights where we share stories and listen to one another without judgment or punishment. Shouting is frowned upon when feelings are shared.

I'm watching my daughters blossom into positive female members of the American society - without much input or influence from their father, but all in all, I must proudly proclaim, I'm performing a damn good job.
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