Anonymous
Post 07/05/2020 12:03     Subject: Am I out of touch? Is this what 7 year olds are doing now?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They will do what you let them do.


+1 and LOL

My teens are not allowed to keep their phones in their room at night. It pisses them off for some reason but I'm firm about it.



I fully support screen time limits for tweens and under, but at some point they need to self-regulate. Are you not going to let them bring their phones to their dorm rooms? Their apartments?


+1 agreed. You're only going to alienate teenagers by doing this.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2020 12:02     Subject: Am I out of touch? Is this what 7 year olds are doing now?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They will do what you let them do.


+1 and LOL

My teens are not allowed to keep their phones in their room at night. It pisses them off for some reason but I'm firm about it.



I fully support screen time limits for tweens and under, but at some point they need to self-regulate. Are you not going to let them bring their phones to their dorm rooms? Their apartments?
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2020 11:59     Subject: Am I out of touch? Is this what 7 year olds are doing now?
Anonymous wrote:They will do what you let them do.


+1 and LOL

My teens are not allowed to keep their phones in their room at night. It pisses them off for some reason but I'm firm about it.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2020 11:57     Subject: Am I out of touch? Is this what 7 year olds are doing now?
Not Tik-tok but youtube videos and cartoons in foreign language.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2020 11:46     Subject: Am I out of touch? Is this what 7 year olds are doing now?
No, absolutely not.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2020 11:43     Subject: Am I out of touch? Is this what 7 year olds are doing now?
I have three girls. Absolutely not.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2020 11:37     Subject: Am I out of touch? Is this what 7 year olds are doing now?
Maybe it's what HER kid is doing- but not mine or anyone else's I know, especially the Tik Tok part.

My kid's IPad is set to end screentime at a certain time.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2020 11:33     Subject: Am I out of touch? Is this what 7 year olds are doing now?
My kids are 8, 5, and 3. I have not heard of any of their peers using TikTok.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2020 11:21     Subject: Am I out of touch? Is this what 7 year olds are doing now?
Tik Tok is truly the devil
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2020 11:19     Subject: Am I out of touch? Is this what 7 year olds are doing now?
Forget screen time, what about the language and possibly porn exposure?!
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2020 11:18     Subject: Am I out of touch? Is this what 7 year olds are doing now?
My kids are allowed to watch vidoes, etc but never late at night (electronics "go to bed" at a certain time at our house) and never free reign on tik tok
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2020 11:17     Subject: Am I out of touch? Is this what 7 year olds are doing now?
No, at 7 most parents are still regulating screen time. A 13 yo or a 14 yo would do this tho. I let mine because she learned natural consequences (exhaustion the next day, bad performance in school, etc). By 13/14 you need them to learn to self-regulate. A 7 yo cannot do that.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2020 11:16     Subject: Am I out of touch? Is this what 7 year olds are doing now?
They will do what you let them do.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2020 11:15     Subject: Am I out of touch? Is this what 7 year olds are doing now?
No, that’s what kids with lazy parents do.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2020 11:14     Subject: Am I out of touch? Is this what 7 year olds are doing now?
My seven year old niece goes to bed with an iPad and watches tik tok until she falls asleep/until the late hours. My sister insists it is what kids do and it is harmless.

My boys are only 3 and 4, so perhaps I’m out of touch? Does social media and free reign tablet use start this young? What am I in for?

Thanks.