Print article. Your tween daughter is so self-conscious about her body that getting her into a dressing room to try on her first bra required the slippery recruiting skills of a veteran MI5 spy. In a logical world, there would be no reason to imagine that any of these kids is snapping photos of their nascent naked naughty bits and texting them to others. Sexting in middle school sounds crazy. When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention anonymously surveyed more than 1, middle school students in Los Angeles, 20 percent reported having received a sext. And a random sampling of 1, users of the Internet safety tool Bark found that 5 percent of sixth through eighth graders exchanged sexually explicit material electronically with another person. Tweens and teens who send naked pictures may not necessarily be motivated by an interest in sex. Younger tweens may not even understand why anyone would ask them for naked pictures.

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'Don't ever take a photo of yourself nude'
Updated August 19, News of a website containing sexual images of Australian school girls will prompt plenty of awkward dinner table conversations this week, writes Sarah Macdonald. But how do we talk to our sons and daughters about online pornography so the right messages stick? It comes up at nearly every book club, school BBQ and class night out. The laughs stop and the hissed whispers of horror travel around circles of women about tween and teen images being shared by text, Snapchat, Instagram or other social media. I've heard stories so upsetting they made me dry retch - of year-old boys sharing videos of their girlfriend masturbating, of year-old boys sharing photos of their penis, of topless year-old girls texting photos to the local lout. For most of us they remain as wild stories that both fan our fears and comfort us that it's never happened to our sweet child. Yet a story this week made it all too real.
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I wanted to contrast how different parenting is today from how parenting was back in the 70s and 80s. All our parents should be in jail. Seriously— How the hell are we all alive and well today???
In addition to coaching basketball, David Sheilds was also a retired elementary school teacher in the district. He is facing 50 felony counts for possessing child pornography. Court papers show Shields admitted to police that he was looking at child porn and searched keywords such as, "tweens" and "jail bait". It was a real shock. She sent me the information the other day and she's like, 'Mr. You trust them with your children and this is what they do. It's very, very sad," Parent Audrey Ruiz said. Police found child porn images and videos all over Shields' computer. Shields told police he didn't know it was illegal.