i can’t tell if alot of these answers are sarcastic or not…
i know social media as a whole is predominantly affluent rich people with too much time on their hands, so maybe that’s just what this demographic is about idk. but surely these people know if you coddle too much the second these kids leave the nest they’re going to make an absolute shitload of mistakes
better to make those mistakes young in relatively controlled environment, teach critical analysis/how to avoid scams/watch out for predatory behavior etc. than to try and pretend it doesn’t exist through a walled garden
you can’t stay in walled garden forever, at some point someone is either escaping, breaking in, or the walls just crumbling down
Just teach them how to use the internet safely and properly. Not to say their age and their address, not to add random people on discord, stuff like that. If you isolate your kids from the internet, then at this point in time, you’re kind of isolating them from a decent chunk of human culture, which from personal experience (anecdotal, not very useful, I know), is a terrible idea. I was raised Mormon, I know how restricting access to things goes for kids. They’ll end up buying a phone off of a friend with less of an idea of how to use it safely. Maybe check their youtube homepage once in a while, make sure it isn’t slop, ask them about what they’re doing on there, answer any questions they have. Might wanna filter some stuff before middle school though. Block gore sites, those tend to fuck people up quite a bit.
When I was a kid we didn’t have internet until highschool. We’d borrow mom’s laptop for homework and smuggle some games on the way. It made us very… resourceful. Internet was this magical inaccessible thing. I remember when our school gave us tablets with restricted internet, I guessed my math teacher’s password based on how he typed and used his account it to access the full internet.
Don’t give them full access to the internet until college.
They need to do a PHD before getting internet access in my family
That’s a little unrealistic, is it not?
i can’t tell if alot of these answers are sarcastic or not…
i know social media as a whole is predominantly affluent rich people with too much time on their hands, so maybe that’s just what this demographic is about idk. but surely these people know if you coddle too much the second these kids leave the nest they’re going to make an absolute shitload of mistakes
better to make those mistakes young in relatively controlled environment, teach critical analysis/how to avoid scams/watch out for predatory behavior etc. than to try and pretend it doesn’t exist through a walled garden
you can’t stay in walled garden forever, at some point someone is either escaping, breaking in, or the walls just crumbling down
I was being serious. Maybe college is an exaggeration but I really do think kids shouldn’t get internet until at least highschool.
I admit it’s mostly bias. I turned out fine therefore I think the way I was raised is good.
Just teach them how to use the internet safely and properly. Not to say their age and their address, not to add random people on discord, stuff like that. If you isolate your kids from the internet, then at this point in time, you’re kind of isolating them from a decent chunk of human culture, which from personal experience (anecdotal, not very useful, I know), is a terrible idea. I was raised Mormon, I know how restricting access to things goes for kids. They’ll end up buying a phone off of a friend with less of an idea of how to use it safely. Maybe check their youtube homepage once in a while, make sure it isn’t slop, ask them about what they’re doing on there, answer any questions they have. Might wanna filter some stuff before middle school though. Block gore sites, those tend to fuck people up quite a bit.
I won’t have kids anyways I was just saying what I would do.
Maybe.
When I was a kid we didn’t have internet until highschool. We’d borrow mom’s laptop for homework and smuggle some games on the way. It made us very… resourceful. Internet was this magical inaccessible thing. I remember when our school gave us tablets with restricted internet, I guessed my math teacher’s password based on how he typed and used his account it to access the full internet.
Me either, but only because there was no internet til high school.
Then I got my dad’s hand-me-down PowerMac g3 in my room. 300MHz of glory, downloading pics of titties one column at a time. Good times. 🥹