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Growing Up Online
From the June Perspective,
the newsletter of the Church of Our Saviour:
Families from St. John’s Ross, St. Stephen’s Belvedere, and Church of Our Saviour met last month for pizza, fellowship, and the opportunity to watch an eyeopening documentary on the involvement of our youth in cyberspace: “Growing Up On Line.”
The evening was successfully multigenerational, although I sensed the engine behind the attending teens was driven by the parents. The program (which I highly recommend) and useful resources can be downloaded online at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/.
One of the most thought-provoking aspects of the documentary was simply the near-impossibility of controlling what your teen sees on the Internet. It was recommended that filter and blocks be used to protect the teens from a plethora of inappropriate sites, and I am now researching ways and means to do this. Quite aside from the safety issue of Internet use was the apparently widespread use of “Sparknotes” which allow a student to pretty much ignore any reading list with the use of a sophisticated cyber “Cliffnotes” program.
Another interesting aspect was the tendency of certain parents to be over-protective, or overly frightened about what danger the Internet actually posed. One mother of three teens portrayed in the film was truly obsessed with the fear of harm that she was certain would come to her children because of the Internet. She required the sole household computer to be placed in the center of the kitchen, where she frequently looked over the shoulders of her increasingly resentful children. A short interview with her oldest child, happily fleeing away to college, demonstrated that the over-vigilance had done nothing to slow his involvement in cyberspace, and had done considerable harm to the family relationships.
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Holy Eucharist w/Bible Study
Wednesday, July 9th
10:30 am Future Film Makers, 3rd Session
Monday, July 14th
8:30 am Holy Eucharist w/Bible Study
Wednesday, July 16th
10:30 am Future Film Makers, 4th Session
Monday, July 21st
8:30 am Holy Eucharist w/Bible Study
Wednesday, July 23rd
10:30 am Future Film Makers, 5th Session
Monday, July 28th
8:30 am Holy Eucharist w/Bible Study
Wednesday, July 30th
10:30 am Community Sunday
Sunday, August 3rd
10:00 am Future Film Makers, 6th session
Monday, August 4th
8:30 am St. Anne's Circle Meets
Sunday, August 10th
11:30 am Future Film Makers, 7th Session
Monday, August 11th
8:00 am Staff Meeting - Office Closed for the day
Tuesday, August 12th
10:00 am
 Monthly Calendar
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