Privacy is one of the most important topics parents must discuss when kids communicate via texting. Yet the concerns you raise may be swiftly dismissed. Adolescents notoriously believe bad things happen only to peers, not to them. You may hear, “Yeah, other kids crash cars/accidentally get pregnant/get speeding tickets, but I won’t; I’ll be fine.” That same sense of blanket immunity to problems is applied to texting. As one example, teens often have to be disabused of the myth that the messages they exchange with friends will remain just between the two of them.
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