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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know times have changed a little, but I have 2 college students and by the time they reached high school, I did not restrict social media except to have time/room limits to their phones (plug phones in downstairs before bed).

They are both well adjusted college students that do not abuse their phones.

But there was a several month phase where one of my kids really went crazy on fortnight - playing way too much but he ended up self regulating and now is much more controlled. My strategy is let them learn to self-regulate but I get that is different from what others like and are comfortable doing.[/quote]

Wait - you just gave them tiktok, insta, etc throughout high school ??

OMG[/quote]

PP here - not sure if the OMG is real or not. I don't think tik tok was a thing when my kids started high school (they are 22 and 20) and yes, they did have instagram in high school.  I followed their accounts and we were open about issues and problems and my kids talk to me, but yes, they were allowed social media in high school and now they are adjusted college students. I do think it's a little different now - there wasn't really youtube and scrolling the way there is now, but instagram actually seems kind of tame and the kids turned out all right....[/quote]

I think what you did is totally fine, but there definitely was YouTube and scrolling back then.[/quote]

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