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[quote=Anonymous]My kid used an iPad for messaging and group chats, and it was fine. We had limits on how much time she could spend on the messaging app (still do, now that she's got a phone.)

It's always been hard for me to figure out what's the 'right' amount of texting/social media time my kids should have. On one hand, they're immersed in their phones when they're doing it, but when they tell me what they've been doing, it's often pretty funny or interesting or purposeful and not that different than the ways I reach out to friends to vent or share something silly. I used to spend lots of the evening on the phone with my friends, starting in middle school. This is just on a screen, which I don't like, but maybe that's me.

Not trying to make this about me here--just sharing my thought process for how my bias against screen-based things gets in the way of my recognizing that my kids are doing basically what I did, and I studied hard and turned out fine and don't have trouble distingiushing life from afar with life up close. [/quote]

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