Anonymous wrote:I am going to offer another opinion. During this time, it is the only way she can connect with her friends, unless you are letting her see people freely. Think hard before you remove all social media.
do you not trust her? Why would you need to remove FaceTime? Messages? I do let DD 14 have snapchat. I don't like YOLO so don't allow it. But insta? and yes snapchat is how they are communicating. At the very least FaceTime and iMessage.
Did something happen that you are all of a sudden grabbing her phone?
This is a tough time for teens to stay connected. Pulling all of this now could really hurt her
In response to all of a sudden grabbing her phone. It wasn't all of a sudden... and I normally don't look that closely. She is supposed to put it in our charging station in my office at night. She put it there and then when I went in there an hour later it was gone. When I went to ask her about it, she claimed she had no idea. So I stood there and pinged it from my phone and lo and behold! She was hiding it in her pjs. That's when I took it to add screen time limits and decided to take a hard look at everything she has on there.