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Monday, April 23, 2007
Am I a horrible mother?
Apr 23 2007 7:40AM | Permalink |Comments (9) |
I am a horrible mother. That’s what one person thinks who sent in a comment to my blog post, “The 8-year-old hacker on Webkinz.”
Obviously I’m a horrible mother, this person wrote, because I didn’t teach my 8-year-old daughter to NEVER EVER give out her password to anyone.
When I posted the “hacker” entry about the Webkinz incident that happened to my daughter, we wondered if kids would find their way to the blog post. Well, some did (when I googled “Webkinz” last week, by the way, I got 1,740,000 results). Webkinz are an undisputed craze with the young set and even some adults; humorist Dave Barry wrote about them in his blog. “Is the Webkinz craze bad for kids?” asked ABC news in an online story on April 12.
Well, let’s see. Let me share some of the comments I received. Actually, the comments I received are telling of the way the new generations of kids are influenced by technology. Many said my daughter was “stupid” to share her password in the first place and she “deserved” what she got. Another comment: “Everyone in your family must be a retard.”A kid gives out her password, someone abuses it, I blog about it and the flaming begins.
This gives a whole new meaning to the experience of childhood, don’t you think?
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at 4/23/2007 12:27:53 PM, Chris said:
What else is new...blame the victim!
at 4/23/2007 12:39:58 PM, Dave said:
Wow,
Tough crowd-I mean, 'retard?'
Geesh, a small price to pay for a BIG lesson learned. Now, stop exploiting your children w/this story-THAT could tag you as a bad parent!
at 4/24/2007 9:23:36 AM, me said:
A few comments:
-thanks for the blog, my wife & used it as a training opportunity with our own kids
-'retard, stupid and exploit your children' - all a bit overblown, to say the least
at 4/25/2007 6:48:30 AM, Brandon said:
I second that.
But seriously your daughter should know not to give out her passwords... I mean afterall, my three year old can handle a key fob and an RSA ID... lol.
I think it''''s offical that kids are growing up too fast when they have to become security conscious before age ten. Or maybe this is the ''''never talk to strangers'''' of the new generation.
at 4/26/2007 5:45:31 PM, kkj said:
I think what they are is wrong I did not give out my password and somebody hacked into mine and stole all my stuff and for webkinz world for saying you "can''''''''''''''''t" do anything thats BULL you guys can and thats mean saying to the little 5 year-old kids how go on webkinz that you "can''''''''''''''''t" replace is juststupid and I agree with you.
at 4/27/2007 10:50:28 AM, tmweditor said:
We recently entered the webkinz world. When we first registered, I immediately told my daughter not to give out her password to anyone except her parents. I even insisted that she not use any part of her name in her user name.
at 4/30/2007 4:01:23 PM, Soon2BDad said:
In our childhoods, the first inkling of any sort of authenticating data would have been perhaps a bank card pin number. Remember, bank cards didn't even come into existence until ~1980.. This is an area where understandably many of us have no prior experience to draw upon for how or when to educate our own children.
at 6/27/2007 11:36:59 AM, tmweditor said:
We have implemented a policy where our daughter must earn Webkinz online time by first keeping up with summer reading.
at 7/7/2009 6:46:27 PM, yvonne said:
lesson learned
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