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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's are a lot worse things they can being doing than TikTok. My 13 year old has it.  She gets bored of it easily and it's not something she spends all of her time doing.  I don't love the songs on Tiktok (she wants to listen to the TikTok XM channel), but again, a lot worse stuff out there.  She knows not to engage on there and would tell me if she felt uncomfortable with something she encountered on there. If she spent all of her time on TT and didn't participate in sports or never left her room to see her friends, I'd be concerned,[b] but TikTok to this generation is what AOL chat rooms were to mine.[/b] There were people doing weird stuff in those chat rooms and there are people doing weird stuff on TT and you just have to know how to navigate it. [/quote]

The bolded is a good point.  I struggle with social media as well, but as of now, my DD has all of them, with overall screen time limits that are very generous.  I will take her phone every few weeks and scroll through her pages to see what she is seeing.

I know it may be a bit defeatist, but the world is happening online and will increasingly get more so.  My approach is to let my child live with that world and learn to navigate it early.  We have conversations about racism and porn and body image arising from that content just as we would if it were coming from students at school, TV, or Seventeen magazine...[/quote]

You might want to thoroughly read the WSJ article discussed here:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1001008.page[/quote]

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