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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I agree with you but there’s a big gap between knowing that and dealing with a 13 year old girl crying that she has no friends and is so lonely because all the girls make plans to go to the mall or movies or hang out at someone’s house via texting or WhatsApp or whatever and she didn’t get invited because she doesn’t have a phone and no one will put a mom onto the text chain.  Maybe the rich folks in Silicon Valley don’t have that problem because their teens have servants who plan their social calendars?  I dunno.  But I’m raising kids in the world I live in, and I think there’s very little that’s black and white about any of this.[/quote]

Or maybe the Silicon Valley execs are exaggerating when they say their kids have little to no screen time? Just like my friend who constantly pontificates about the evils of screen time and became very red faced when her kid started singing the theme to a popular cartoon. She quickly explained that Larla loves music, so she learned the theme song by merely listening to it. Of course little Larla then shared copious details about the show while mom tried to redirect her.

Personally, I believe adults understand how tv, ads, you tube, etc. are designed to promote consumerism. And I see the big brother aspect of our digital footprint. But I'm not really troubled by it. I accept it, and I adapt. And perhaps most importantly, I teach my kids about it.

Do you worry about how your kids will learn how to navigate screens and social media if it's presented as some sort of evil thing? Or some sort of adults only thing?

[b]Having watched two kids from a junk food free home literally take a basket of cookies (meant for a party of 50 people) from the buffet table and run and hide to eat it, I've personally seen what happens when moms attempt to raise science projects rather than well rounded kids.[/b] The kids were double gusting them as the parents crawled behind furniture to retrieve them. It was hilarious and sad. Needless to say, those kids have developed rather bizarre relationships with food thanks to rigid parenting. [/quote]

Our children's friends (8- and 10-year-olds being raised as vegetarians) begged and pleaded for bacon from my children's plates at a restaurant.[/quote]

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