Thread: Good info for parents of teens

Web Site Translates Teen Text Messages for Parents

Wot r ur kids txting? If you're wondering — or 1dering — there's a new online translation tool that helps decipher the code, reports Agence France-Presse.

Mobile phone maker LG Electronics MobileComm USA has launched "DTXTR," a Web service which translates teen text speech into plain English.

Plug in text shortcuts such as OMG! or 2G2BT and get back the translation — in this case "Oh my God!" and "too good to be true."

DTXTR includes a glossary of hundreds of definitions for shorthand text phrases, abbreviations and symbols.

It also includes text tips for parents to help them "stay ahead of the curve."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,522519,00.html

Parents beware!!!

Teens: Oral Sex and Casual Prostitution No Biggie
Teens in Documentary Say Oral Sex 'Not That Big of a Deal' and Get Paid for Sexual Favors

They don't give their names, but viewers can see their faces plainly and what these teens are saying is shocking parents.

Pre-teens and teens are engaging in sexual activity at an earlier age.

"I ended up having sex with more than one person that night and then in the morning I was trying to get morning-after pills," one of the girls said. "I was, like, 14 at the time."

It's just one of dozens of stories from teenage girls in a new documentary by Canadian filmmaker Sharlene Azam that aims to shed light on the secret, extremely sexual lives of today's teens.

After four years researching for the documentary, Azam told "Good Morning America" that oral sex is as common as kissing for teens and that casual prostitution -- being paid at parties to strip, give sexual favors or have sex -- is far more commonplace than once believed.

"If you talk to teens [about oral sex] they'll tell you it's not a big deal," Azam said. "In fact, they don't consider it sex. They don't consider a lot of things sex."

The video is scary and eye-opening

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Parenting/sto ... 121&page=1

As a footnote, this is already common place in Japan. Sex is no big deal or taboo. Having money to buy fashionable things is much more important. Sad but a reality.

This is what happens when you lie to your kids about sex. The abstinence programs have made things worse, especially since they think that intercourse is bad, but oral is good. Kids don't need to be having sex of ANY kind.