Raising kids in the current era makes me anxious

[currentera]

The internet and social media and raising teens makes me so anxious. There is far too much information for the immature teens brain.

We have put restrictions, speak to them about keeping safe online and outside; however they do spend a lot of time on screens and you can’t control everything they watch.

How do other people manage? Before you would worry when they were outside now you don’t even know if they are completely safe n their on house and bedrooms.

No wonder people are preferring to have dogs and choose not to have children.

@currentera

I think this is more complicated than our teens. And girls have different pressures online than boys, generally speaking.

If I had to approach this, and I would do this gently, but be persistent, I would find a way to convince her that the poison online is just after her attention, the attention economy, that the creators don't care about her in real life as you and her family love her more than you ever describe.

The platforms and videos are just there to sell her data and push adverts to get her to want money to be this or that, and that's it's really clever, everyone falls for it, they have teams of evil psychologists developing ever more ingenious ways to keep her hooked and the only way out of this loop is to delete the app, keep her phone for communications and positive social media, but delete tiktok for now at least until the summer after GCSE exams and see how everyone is feeling then. (yes I know that could be in over a year).

That's the sort of approach I would take. Over a bit of time not in one big bombardment.