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[quote=Anonymous]Well, if you go by their complaints now, they will complain of impaired socialization due to me not allowing social media until 13 per the TOS. My fifth grader is very displeased by this right now, and her 7th grade sister says not having instagram and snapchat is "social suicide". Sorry, not going to allow them to lie to sign up and the longer I can keep them away from that nonsense the better. Older DDs comment also prompted a very brief discussion of why I hate it when people use that word so flippantly and trivialize the very real issues around mental health/suicide.

From the other side, the one thing that has always stuck with me... my parents were great, and I love them dearly, and I would never hurt them by letting them know I still have some (unnecessary, useless, illogical) resentment over this, but I'm not sure I will ever forget that they said "ignore it, he's just bullying" about the kid who threatened to kill me when I was in 4th grade. Context -- I'm physically disabled and he said he had a pocket knife he would use to kill me because I walk funny. Never actually showed the knife, so it was almost certainly just an idiot kid running his mouth. Rationally I know there was never any real threat, so my parents were right to not make a big deal of it. Terrifying at the time, though, and for some reason that specific quote from my mom has always bothered me a bit. It was the logical and sensible reaction, it just wasn't emotionally satisfying (which obviously isn't the way to make decisions about how to react to things in life).[/quote]

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