It's yet another fantastic day to be ALIVE...and to be able to love GOD and enjoy His amazing Creation! And speaking of Creation, as PARENTS, we all know that we are highly and directly responsible for KNOWING our kids...inside and out...never lazy...never leaving our "parenting" just to the schools, coaches, and other influences in their lives. We came across some TELLING statistics recently about Internet "Social Networking"...websites like MySpace.com, Facebook.com, Twitter.com, etc. that allow people to "connect" and post pictures, audios, videos, etc. about "what they're doing" at any given time. The CONCEPT is wonderful! (On a side note, can you imagine Jesus, Paul, or Peter having INSTANT ACCESS to getting out their messages to the masses? May we USE this incredible technology to let the world know how much we've CHANGED for the better and let them know how GOOD our GOD is! ) BACK to social networking...the stats we pulled were from www.socialnetworkingwatch.com. The POST we're referencing is entitled "Parents Are Out Of The Loop." OUCH! Get this...here's the quote - "Common Sense Media has released the results of a national poll of teens and parents on social networking behaviors. 22% of teens check social networks more than 10 times a day, while only 4% of parents believe kids are checking SN (social networks) that much. 51% of teens check SN more than once a day, while only 23% of parents say their kids check them more than once a day. 28% have shared personal information that they normally wouldn't have shared in public."Whoa! Think about that...As a Staff here at Weigh Down and for ALL of us who are PARENTS, this should challenge us more than EVER to make sure we are AWAKE and have a loving, caring eye on what our KIDS are DOING...not just on what they SAY they are doing. We'll talk more today on WDWB LIVE at 3:30pm CST about social networking and the concept of FOCUSING on what's MOST important in life...in the middle of an ever-increasingly BUSY and more CONNECTED world.
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