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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does your 11 year old have a smart phone? No phone. No app. No problem.[/quote]

We did not let ours have one until 13 although most kids don’t n her grade had one earlier. They find ways to start social
Media accounts on their school Computers that even get around the school Monitoring software and on iPads which the School earlier requested we get for daily IXL … I still regret following school advice about that.

I don’t think not allowing a phone is a long term solution to helping teens to navigate social Media wisely …
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Throwing your hands up in the air isn’t the answer. Not having a phone isn’t a long term solution to navigating social media wisely BUT it is the best way to prevent your young kids from seeing hardcore porn and getting involved in proana stuff and other super harmful things. You can both not give your child a handheld computer with total access to the internet AND have lots of talks with them about social media and the internet. [/quote]

Why do you assume I threw my hands up in the air? I did not. I held off 2-3 years after many of her friends had phones. I have monitoring software a d set many limits and have endless conversations with her about online safety and appropriate posts.

But I agree with others that even if you withhold phones as we did, they find ways around it on their school computers and friends phones.

I don’t think there is one way to handle things that fixes everything but multiple strategies are needed.[/quote]

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