This just makes me sick and I'm sure most other parents are feeling much the same way. Not only are girls fighting, mercilessly beating up on a victims but they are also bringing their camera. So, there is a teen doing the hitting, kicking, etc., and then there is one holding the camera or cell phone to make the video. Talk about a new level of shame for any of the parents.
As if things couldn't get any worse, since I am always looking for the ray of sunshine to come peaking through the gray clouds, now middle school girls are doing the same thing. I wonder if they saw it on television first? This article seems to suggest that they did.
I think we need to begin to take teaching our teens empathy and tolerance to a new level, since according to this CNN article about teens videotaping a violent event: 'it's becoming an increasingly common scenario'. We may also want to teach our teens how not to be a victim, perhaps other bullying preventative measures.
What are your thoughts about all of the mean girl violence going on and being videotaped? Are mean girls getting meaner or are they doing it for the attention and the show? Do you think the media and reality television contributed to the aggression these teens are showing to the camera? Share your opinion in the comments area.
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Teaching empathy actually starts in the toddler years. If they don’t have empathy by the time they are teens, it is too late.
You teach empathy to a toddler by having them help with caring for others, and, yes, spanking them when they do something bad to another. This way they associate at a deep level bad consequences for bad actions (and also learn what it feels like to be on the receiving end of aggression). Too many parents these days do not do this. Partly because the parents are simply not there. These news stories are the result of that.
It all comes down to teaching our children what is right and wrong. I have a 15 year old daughter and it just made me so sad to see this video and to be honest I looked for one second and shut it down.
These kids see so much on TV. We need to make sure we keep the lines of communication open with our children.
I am a firm believer in Communication.
Hmm. I see there are only two comments on this topic. WHERE ARE YOU PARENTS??? I think this is the main question we should be asking? Where are the parents in these teens lives? Stop blaming the media, video games etc. and RAISE YOUR KIDS. Start at birth.
planning, plotting, and execution of the action isn’t an anger management issue, the girls and the boys should be punished to the fullest extent of the law for a teenager.
I think it isnt the parents fault all the time its their kids being too frightened to even tell them anything. Though for the others the parents tell and teach them to use violence or some may even sit there watching television and cant even be bothered and thats what is mainly bothering me so parents if your willing to fight against bullies feel free to do so and stick up for the beautiful child you brought into this world and let your child be happy for once and for all.
i may not be a parent but i am a senior in high school. do you parents even realize how bad high school has got since you have been? you don’t even know half of the things that go on inside the high school building. so you say that there is too much fighting and you want to stop it. so why not look at the big picture. human nature automatically puts us on the defense and you have kids out to hurt others. how can we defend ourselves without physically defending ourselves. i myself have been known as the school outcast and have been jumped twice. a girl tried to jump me again just last month and me fighting back saved my life. i did more then what i should have because i broke her nose in two places. but i gave myself a new name and people don’t pick on me anymore. my mom was not happy that it got to that point but she understands why it happened. maybe instead of automatically judging it why don’t you try to get to the real problem… what caused it to begin with.
i know im not a parent but i think that it’s right just like tina said that ” where is the parents ?! ” you are the parents so you are the only one who can disceplen your child . you can stop the bullies if your the one who will make the way to stop it ..you must not fight with each other . god create us not to fight . but we must have all disceplen in our own . we can control ourselves ..every parents must control there own childs . coz you are the parents . what for that you make them and then after you gave birth to them you’ll just dont care about them . you dont even know what all you childs are doing .. you must help your own child . so many teenagers like others that always bullying by others can stop it now .. so no one will get hurt ever ..
Are you kidding? This problem isn’t limited to girls. It also includes boys. Until parents and the judicial system wake up and pull their heads out of their butts, this problem will continue. In the meantime, I’m all in favor of steppingv in when I see such violence, pulling the victim out of harm’s way, and promptly inserting those cell phone cameras into their owner’s rudest orifices.