The story was tragic. A former Virginia police officer drove nearly 3,000 miles to Riverside, California, to kidnap a teenage girl he had met online through “catfishing,” a type of online deception in which someone pretends to be someone else, especially to pursue fraudulent online romances.
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Keep Your Kids From Taking Catfishers’ Bait
Posted by Informed Families on December 11, 2022 at 6:58 PM
Topics: parenting, teenagers, teens, social media, valor
One of the topics in this month’s Family Table Time kit is valor. But if you try to tell your child what it means to have valor, they may wonder why you’re bothering, them since they’re not serving in the military.
Why would a kid need to worry about courage or bravery, as the dictionary defines the word, in their everyday lives?