The following italized quotes are from an article on Slate.com regarding children and the internet. Katie Rophe interviewed danah boyd, and honestly, because I don't know how to say it any better, I'll just put exclamation points on her ideas (all formatting mine): The idea of shutting out sex for as long as possible, protecting kids by not exposing them to it, may not be the perfect solution. "My feeling is that we do a disservice to young people by setting up pornography as forbidden 'adult' materials, thus making them hugely desirable. From my perspective, we need to prep young people to critically encounter this material long before they do." Her argument that we should give them the apparatus to interrogate this material, rather than subscribing to the fantasy that we can shield them from it. Yes. And in fact, she argues that, on close examination, many of our cultural anxieties about what happens to kids online are based more on parents' im...
We tried for one, and we ended up with a bushel of fun.