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[quote=Anonymous]If you are determined to keep her off snapchat, fully lock down all your home devices (block sites and don't allow any kind of downloads) and be prepared that might not work.  My son's friends have done things like downloaded the app and then deleted it off the device daily.  They have devices for school and they know how to get on web-based accounts using that.  They also get on through friends' devices and school computers even if you've done everything else.  My son tells me they all have the accounts even if parents don't know.  I've seen this firsthand when he shows me friends' accounts and I know their parents think they don't have accounts.  I'm sure the kids who have underground accounts are on it less often than kids who have free access.

I went through all of this in middle school.  Didn't let him get it for a while.  Did a lot of thinking and talking to other parents.  My way of thinking is he's either going to do it underground or we're going to do it together and he's going to have my guidance.  I got on snapchat, educated myself about what it's like, learned how to use it, wrote up a page of a contract, had a long conversation with him and went over every topic I knew to bring up in explicit detail, let him on it, and then added him as a friend.  I also monitor how much he's on it on his phone per day (easy through screentime) and you can set limits how much they can use the app from their own device (again through screentime).  I periodically check in with him about specific topics and look at his account randomly and unannounced at times.

We've had no issues with him having it so far.

Snapchat sucks I wish it didn't exist.

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