Notenoughgin
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I was talking about this with my oh yesterday. He was a bit nonchalant about it - their lives, their shitstorm - UNTIL I told him they have 100 k followers on you tube and 80K on insta. He was dumbfounded that two adults would think it was safe to put their little girls on line like that. He could not believe their stupidity and selfishness. My youngest child has been having lessons in school since age about 9 about the importance of staying safe online. The Meldrums fall down time and time again. Basics that kids are taught in year 3/4.... don’t use your real name, don’t post pics that can be seen by anyone, don’t reveal your address...... time and time again the Meldrums getting BASIC e-safety wrong. This girls are extremely vulnerable.
As an aside I am good friends with a senior police officer in my former small town. We were taking our kids to a local playground. I would have let the older kids (14) supervise the younger kids (12) in the toilets, but my friend stopped me and said she would take them in. Afterwards she said that adjacent to the park (within a 1/4 mile) lived 3 men on the sex offenders register who like to hang out in around the public toilets. Made me feel physically sick. Imagine how much more power these sick individuals would have if they knew the names and backgrounds (what they call their Granny for example) of kids using that park? It terrifies me. I guarantee that in the tens of thousands who follow these online families with little kids there are bound to be some seriously disturbed people. I would never take that risk.
As an aside I am good friends with a senior police officer in my former small town. We were taking our kids to a local playground. I would have let the older kids (14) supervise the younger kids (12) in the toilets, but my friend stopped me and said she would take them in. Afterwards she said that adjacent to the park (within a 1/4 mile) lived 3 men on the sex offenders register who like to hang out in around the public toilets. Made me feel physically sick. Imagine how much more power these sick individuals would have if they knew the names and backgrounds (what they call their Granny for example) of kids using that park? It terrifies me. I guarantee that in the tens of thousands who follow these online families with little kids there are bound to be some seriously disturbed people. I would never take that risk.