Professor Warns Parents About MySpace Glitter Graphics Addiction

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This blog is a MySpace Glitter Graphics Addiction Epidemic Blog but some (very few) of our readers might become skeptical if the fine team of MyFlakes.com is truly qualified to address this global issue.

So we proudly present a few quotes from Larry Rosen, professor of psychology at California State University in Dominguez Hills who has long studied "the Net generation," the first to be raised by video games the Internet and mobile phones.

" … use your parenting skills to help them get the most out of MySpace — to not be addicted, to not be bullied and to know what to do when you're bullied. But taking (MySpace) away from them is really like restricting going to the mall with their friends or going to school and talking to their friends. It's tantamount to making them a pariah."

Unlike the heavy handed actions of the UK House of Lords the professor suggests ongoing communication between parents and their children. What a shocking concept but it is less and less practiced in the information age.
Fact: information from YouTube and MySpace are cool but information from worrying parents is uncool.

"Talk to your kids. If the computer is in their rooms — which is not a good idea — walk in and ask them what they are doing. Ask them what's new, what they like about it. Don't be judgmental. Tell them you want to learn. Kids love rules, believe it or not. Kids need limits."

Being patient, open minded, calm and not being judgmental is almost an impossible task to many parents therefore the luckiest and best adjusted kids are those without overbearing, overly critical, always negative disciplinary parents.
Kids cannot choose their parents I think they can divorce them but by that time the damage is done.

"Parents have a total misconception about what their kids are doing online.
They don't know how much time they're spending. They don't have the breadth of what's happening to the kids online. They think the kids are being attacked by predators all the time. They are way over-concerned about the technology that the kids are using.
Everything is so different from year to year. No wonder the parents are afraid.
They don't have to know everything, but they've got to see what MySpace is about."

There is no easy solution to an issue which is brought upon us by billion dollar companies. Perhaps love, caring, understanding, humility and at least decent parenting is a good start.

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