Need some advice please for the future

[Herewegoagain1990]

Hi,
We were talking last night about parenting and our own experience when we were teens. My husband has ASD as does are eldest (our sons is more severe) due to my husband's own bad experiences he's concerned about keeping our eldest safe from being taken advantage of. He is keen to keep parental controls on regardless of age. Would this be fair on our other nt children as they become teens? When he brought it up last night it got me thinking! Do your ASD tweens/teens have social media and do you limit screen time and when did you stop? This is way into the future by the way!

We do limit screen time. I know it doesn’t work for everyone, but it does us/DC. Weekdays DSs can have 1 hour a day in addition to screens used for schoolwork and whilst undergoing physio/treatments for a medical condition. This is plenty for them when you take into account things they need to do and clubs. Weekends are more relaxed. We have parental controls too, what DC can access has changed as they have gotten older.

DS1 (complex needs) and DS3 (ASD) don’t have social media. It wouldn’t be appropriate for DS1’s needs and DS3 isn’t interested. DS2 (supposedly NT but there are question marks over that) does have social media, which we monitor closely.

With DD’s (DD2 also has ASD) we gradually relaxed rules as and when they were ready.