Have you heard of the word SEXTING?

Sexting is a coined word derived from the words "sex" and "texting" which basically mean exchanging nude or sexually related photos via SMS or also known as texting. I personally haven't heard of such case here in the Philippines but such modern issue is pretty evident in the US maybe because an MMS message here cost too much as compared to regular texting.

But anyhow the point of this blog is that it's another issue where children are exposed such acts which are highly damaging if they misunderstood it. Again, as I've said in my previous blog posts concerning the concerned people's appeal to MTRCB in banning commercials that children might misunderstand if watched, there are certain things in this world that we personally don't have control over and as such should have a different priority and strategy in solving problems related to such incidents. The best solution in any scenario that children may misunderstand [be it media, technology, other people, etc.] is for matured people especially parents to teach, guide and inspire the young ones and explain the pros and cons without any bias [if possible, especially to kids who are already 18 years old and above] about certain issues that they may encounter.

This doesn't mean of course that we should not appeal to media, technology, environment or other people. We should of course but it should not be our highest priority for the safety of our children but rather our personal guidance because the common denominator of sources that children may misunderstand such as media [TV, radio, print, internet, etc.], technology [PC, cellphone, etc.], environment or people [friends, schoolmates, neighborhood, etc.] - they are all BEYOND our control as either we have little or no influence at all to these sources. It's much like, you don't have the power to stop the clouds from falling and becoming rain but you definitely have the full power to bring all necessary raining gears if you wish to go out or stay wherever you are until the rain stops.


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