Thursday, May 09, 2024
Don't Co-Parent With Congress
I'm always puzzled when I hear other parents say they're worried about the effects social media might be having on their children. My confusion only grows when I see that the federal government is considering a ban on kids using social media. Are teens acquiring their own mobile devices and paying the bills? Doubtful. It seems someone gave them tacit permission to be on those platforms and the tools to do so. Yet many parents feel like they have no options other than to surrender to their kids' desires or hate tweet their congressman to get the government to do something about TikTok.
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ReplyDeleteI was pissed in the 1950s when in high school and I was denied use of a smartphone and social media. It wasn’t fair.
This is not the business of government. The confusion is on the government thinking it is its' business.
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That's why our current government is a national socialist one. Federal rules for all aspects of life. And we're rapidly slipping into international socialism.
DeleteThe problem is not that the government does not want kids see social media.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that the government only wants to control WHAT kids see on social media; everything else is a conspiracy theory.
You'd be surprised - yes, teens are acquiring mobile devices. Dealt with that a few years back when grounding my now 19 year old step back when she was 13ish. You'd take her phone, she'd turn up with one of her friend's devices in hand.
ReplyDeleteHad the same thought. I feel like this author might be in for a rude awakening, that is if his daughter isn't crafty enough to completely conceal her phone's existence. Picking up a free phone and getting on a shared plan with friends who have less controlling parents (here Becky, take my iPhone 14, daddy just got me an iPhone 15) is a thing that teens do, because it's not that hard to.
DeleteWhen the kids started driving they got a cell phone. It was voice and voice mail only. No internet or texting unless they were connected to a lan. This was back in 2008. It was that way until they were 21. When they got in a car the phone went in the glovebox. If they got a voice mail they were taught to pull over to listen to it.
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