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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only if she prevents them from seeing friends and home schools and has no expectation for them to get a job through normal channels.

Could you do it? Sure. But why would you want to hobble your child like that? I get that she thinks it is a good thing to do and that all media is bad, and when the issue causes conflict in her life, she will blame social media, but that problem is actually that she is intentionally hobbling her child's social literacy and social life, as well as many academic expectations.

Decades ago, I had a friend whose parent never had a TV and never let them watch. It was pretty surprising the simple problems this caused in school and social life. It really harmed the child emotionally. The kid didn't catch quips, memes, EQ references, analogies in class, and bombed any essay that had a modern social reference that one would have known from just an average kids' life.[/quote]

Decades ago (mid 90s) when I was in high school, my AP Spanish class had a weekly assignment that we were supposed to watch at least half an hour of television in Spanish, and then write a short report on what we watched.  I wonder what your friend (or her parents) would have done in this situation? [/quote]

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