Social Media & Your Children! Please Read...

Over the years, I’ve been called by many families about their children who go missing and then finding out that social media was the basis for this occurrence to take place. Yes, it is a problem and yes as parents we need to be vigil, if not more so, because of the vast social media outlets kids have at their fingertips. I’m sitting in my office as I write this out while Dr. Phil is playing on the television. I’m watching this father’s plight for educating the public on his daughter’s death, because of the use of social media and the contact with a paedophile. The harsh reality of life is, there are predators out there all over social media, lurking like a carnivorous wild animal, waiting to pounce. The key is to get involved in your kids life as much as possible and if that means becoming more than mom and dad to becoming that friend, do it. Social media is not a face friendly application when it comes to your child’s life. Manipulators sit patiently by, waiting for the next victim to cross their screens in places like KIK, Twitter, Facebook, SnapChat, MySpace or many others out there. The world is made of many evil people unfortunately and I’ve personally been on the front lines with families who have been or seen this evil. It breaks my heart, every time when I’m contacted by a devastated father or mother that their child has been abducted or murdered. There is no pain in this world that can describe what they go through, but you can hear it in their voice. That is all that is left is the voice of the mother or father who are torn deeper than ever and empty within and you know there is absolutely nothing you can do to give them their baby back. The hollow cries from their souls echo through the phone or in person as I’ve sat with many families, it just rips you apart seeing them and their pain. 
If it is any at all that makes any sense whatsoever in what I’ve tried to convey in this message, please, please…speak to your children and don’t be afraid to be as open and close to them as you can. Be on their social media’s, be involved and don’t just let it go, as it’s only Facebook, or Twitter, KIK, Myspace or any social media. Love your children more than enough, more than just it’s your child, love them as they are YOUR LIFE! 
Education is key use it and open the doors to much better for you and your child. And GOD FORBID, anything terrible happens to you who are reading this now. 
God Bless You All!