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[quote=Anonymous]4th grade is too young for all that, OP, you are right to take a stand.

I allowed my 5th grade DD to use Discord during the pandemic lockdown and right away, she learned valuable lessons about cyber bullying, talking to strangers, etc. I was right there monitoring, since we were all in the house all the time. She's in 8th grade now and by choice is not on social media, except that she continues to use Discord with kids she knows in real life.

Safety online is critically important and YOU should be teaching her safe practices in the next couple of years.

At some point, you might also want to pick your battles when adolescence rears its feisty head. Not now, when she's still in elementary, but in middle school, you'll realize that maybe clothes aren't the hill to die on. Clothes and make-up  aren't going to get her killed. Sneaking into parties, alcohol, pills laced with fentanyl, cyber bullying, etc, will put her in real danger. You can buy yourself leverage when you appear to relent on certain things, just so you can push more on others.

You can control a child, but you need to outwit an adolescent ;-)

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