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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How are you even doing this once they are adults? Are all of you saying you do this using paying for the phone as a manipulation tactic? [/quote]

We are not doing this once they are adults. We are restricting when they are under-18 and in high school.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

But the OP asks “what are you doing once they leave for college”

Is everyone ignoring the question and just stating what they do for their minor teen? [/quote]

The op posed a rhetorical question and never expected an answer.

More likely, she was just trying to assuage her guilt over letting her children have unrestricted TikTok access and is now seeing the negative outcomes from her decision.  [/quote]

Yeah, that seems likely.  I noticed she has not returned to her own thread, as far as I can tell.[/quote]

OP here. Ive been reading. My question was not rhetorical and my teens do not have unrestricted access. I’m genuinely asking. No one is really answering though.  Most of my older teens friends already have unlimited access so there is nothing for their parents to change. As usually, the parents commenting on DCUM do not match my lived experience. I noticed this back when all the moms in my mom’s group quit nursing at 6 months and flipped the car seats around at age 1. DCUM is not my reality and I end feeling sort of an island in real life. [/quote]

I’m sorry, I posted a random thought earlier. I think it’s because IRL no one restricts anything in college and almost no one restricts anything in HS.  When you read here, it sounds like most have their kids off electronics and social media.  It’s not matching up what you experience because it’s not real.  Like social media, this is the internet. Anyone can post anything. It doesn’t make it true. [/quote]

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