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[quote=Anonymous]My 5th grade DD11 just told me that there is a group chat of a bunch of kids in her grade, I’m guessing 30 or so.  At first, I thought she was telling me because she was feeling FOMO, but it turns out that she does not want to be a part of it because it gets too wild for her.  One time, one of the kids group FaceTime’d all of the kids on the chat and went on an expletive-laced tirade.  Another time, a boy sent a photo of another boy classmate’s butt to the whole group.  She said one of her friends woke up in the middle of the night to find 300 new messages on the chat.  One of her good friends gets a lot of attention from the boys and apparently gets a lot of individual (not group) texts from those boys.

I am SO GLAD that DD does not want to be a part of this, but I am shocked that parents are letting their kids.  My nephew used to be part of an unmonitored group chat at the same age, and it was rife with bullying.   Some kids have their own phones and I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that their parents aren’t monitoring their use, but some are using their parents’ iPads, so wouldn’t the parents eventually catch wind of what the chats are like?  And even if the content of the group chat wasn’t objectionable, are they okay with their kid getting hundreds of messages at a time?

This just makes me worried what it’s going to be like for DD in middle then high school when hormones are raging.  For those of you with older kids in MS/HS, what do you do to help protect your daughter from this sort of thing, not to mention social media?  Right now DD is okay having just an Apple Watch with restricted contacts, but I’m sure eventually she will want a phone.[/quote]

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