"First on (Melania's) the agenda? A new information guide designed for parents to help their children deal with cyberbullying.
A new information guide designed for parents to help their children deal with cyberbullying.
(Hold the phone on the "new" part. )
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Melania Trump has launched an awareness campaign called ‘BE BEST’ that aims to promote healthy development in children. The White House explained in its announcement today that BE BEST wants to help teach kids “about the importance of social, emotional, and physical health.” First on the agenda? A new information guide designed for parents to help their children deal with cyberbullying.
The guide is simply called “Talking with Kids About Being Online,” and it includes a forward from the First Lady. In it, Melania Trump says she wants to “nurture the most valuable part of our society and our future: children.” Digging into the document, we see that the guide itself was created by the FTC.
In it, officials highlight the basic ways people are using the Internet, as well as the risks involved, such as being exposed to cyber-bullies. Things kick off with a section for parents about talking to their kids, snowballing from there into using parental controls, talking to kids in different age groups, helping kids navigate online socialization, dealing with cyber-bullies, using smartphones, sharing content, and more.
In a statement today, the White House explained that BE BEST will also focus on other aspects, including: “healthy living, encouragement, kindness, and respect.” The administration includes a mention of using this campaign to equip kids to “deal with the evils of the opioid crisis,” too.
In a statement, Melania Trump said:
It remains our generation’s moral imperative to take responsibility and help our children manage the many issues they are facing today, including encouraging positive social, emotional, and physical habits. By acknowledging there are many important issues, and knowing these problems cannot be solved overnight, I believe we can change the way we think and talk about issues facing children today.
Of course, if the White House truly wants to deal with cyberbullying, it should first lead by example . The guide itself is available here .
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Fun fact: The White House trumpets “Talking with Kids about Being Online" as "a booklet by First Lady Melania Trump and the Federal Trade Commission." Except for an intro, it's exactly the same thing Obama's FTC put out.
Here's the thing. Melania Trump has put out a booklet in support of her new Be Best children's initiative.
Websites like the one in the OP credit Trump with the production of a "new" booklet on cyber bullying. Says "new" right in the text.
But it's not new, it is taken almost in whole from something from the Obama administration. No credit is given in the Trump material.
Here we go again with the Trumps
And with the necessary changes, it might work now.
By being claimed as an original work. At least the family is consistently void of ethics.
That's the only consistent thing about them
Her speech at the convention was pretty good too.
The key phrase here is "good sense"
I got the chance to see this on TV. When she started talking about cyberbullying, The very first thing I though of was exactly what is pointed out above ( lead by example ).
Will she be using her husband as an example of a cyberbully?
Instead of a first lady, we have a first plagiarizer! There isn't a scrap of integrity in the entire Trump family.
Don't matter anyway. Within the hour Trump cut funding for child healthcare and Sessions will now remove children from their parents who will be placed in detention centers.
As with all things Trump, none of this matters. He is loading the courts with Federalists that end 'Choice, birth control, Union bargaining and American freedoms in general.
Hail the oligarchy. Read em' and weep, suckers.
Melania is a blip on the radar. A convenient distraction at best.
Agreed. It's important to pay attention to the stuff they're trying to pull off while we are all distracted by their plagiarism.
Well......Melania sure does like to copy Michelle Obama in her writings and what she champions, so much so, that she pretty much copies her word for word:
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First Lady Melania Trump’s cyberbullying pamphlet is near exact copy of Obama-era FTC report
"Melania Trump has run into another plagiarism problem.
The First Lady rolled out her "Be Best" campaign to combat cyberbullying on Monday — and provided attendants at a White House press conference with an informational pamphlet that is nearly identical to a Federal Trade Commission report from 2014.
Except for a few minor changes, Melania Trump's "Talking with Kids About Being Online" is a page-by-page duplicate of a leaflet entitled "Net Cetera: Chatting with Kids About Being Online" put out by the FTC in January 2014."
"In addition to the FTC flub, Melania Trump's "Be Best" awareness campaign raised some eyebrows since one of its main focuses is combating cyberbullying — behavior her husband is notorious around the world for perpetuating."
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Perhaps she should start by teaching her own husband the bad effects of cyber bullying first. He definitely needs help, big time.
Copying Michelle Obama again. And doing nothing about her own husband who has been proven to be one of the biggest name calling bullying person on Twitter with Twitter only refusing to cancel the account because they said it was important to preserve the Presidential record. Twitter blocks and cancels and puts users in "Twitter jail" for less than Trump has done.
Trump has been a public and social media bully for years and years. Does Melania really believe her own son should behave like Trump?
Does Melania believe other children should repeat the things Trump has said, done and used social media to belittle and name call others?
Does Melania even have the common sense to realize one day her son will see what her husband has written, said and done as part of our National History?
That poor child one day will have to face the reality even if Melania isn't facing it. She cannot cover up for Trump by using this sham as proof to her son she "tried to do something".
Maybe she's telling her son that his father is not someone he should look up to.
You never know what goes on in somebody's house
THIS GUIDE WAS ISSUED UNDER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION!
And Trump is trying to take credit for it!
She's just helping her husband come up with some new comedy material.