My 7 year old has no devices of her own. She watches TV every few days and sometimes peruses cat videos on Instagram with me. That’s it.

I’m doing a lot of things wrong in this parenting game, but your sister is setting her child up for all kinds of health, emotional, and social difficulties in life. I’d consider that abusive neglect.

NOT acceptable. Most families with teens have a screens-in-dock-downstairs rule at night. We do.

My 8 yo wanted tik tok and would not stop begging. So I let him watch with me. My TikTok feed is 95% greys anatomy clips and home improvement. It cured him of asking by boring him with it, which I’m sure will change when he’s back with his friends and he realizes again that TikTok isn’t exclusively for old people.

Anonymous wrote:I have a 7 year old boy. He has no idea what TikTok even is. He does watch more YouTube than I'd like, but he does not take his iPad to be with him. Electronics live on the main floor and are plugged in about an hour before bedtime for us to do shower/bath, stories, etc.

* does not take his iPad to bed with him

I have a 7 year old boy. He has no idea what TikTok even is. He does watch more YouTube than I'd like, but he does not take his iPad to be with him. Electronics live on the main floor and are plugged in about an hour before bedtime for us to do shower/bath, stories, etc.

I have a 7yo DD and most of her friends watch TikTok. I only allow my DD to watch it when I watch with her to control what she sees, so she maybe watches for 10-15 mins 3x per week. She likes the dance and gymnastics videos and could care less about anything else. I don’t let her go to sleep with her iPad so that isn’t an option with us.

My guess is that it varies by school and maybe girls vs boys since most of my friends with sons have zero idea that TikTok exists.

Anonymous wrote: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

+1.

My 13 yo leaves his phone downstairs at night. My 17 yo does not but he does not leave his downstairs and does not fall asleep to his phone.

For a 7yo? That’s nuts and lazy.

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Anonymous wrote:Just curious, for the people who don't let their teens keep their phones in their rooms, what do they do for alarms? I teach HS and at least 95% of my students say they use phone alarms. Please don't tell me you are still waking your kids up at their ages!

They still make standalone alarm clocks, you know. They're really cheap. And alarm clocks for Nest.

Sock puppet alert!

Not sure you understand what sock puppeting is

Absolutely NO tiktok allowed for my 9 year old. I check his phone regulary and was horrified at snapshot too. Porn ads everywhere. Deleted it. I'm upset that his dad bought him a new Android phone. I can't monitor it like I did with iPhone.

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Anonymous wrote:Just curious, for the people who don't let their teens keep their phones in their rooms, what do they do for alarms? I teach HS and at least 95% of my students say they use phone alarms. Please don't tell me you are still waking your kids up at their ages!

They still make standalone alarm clocks, you know. They're really cheap. And alarm clocks for Nest.

Sock puppet alert!

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I assure you, I am not.

Anonymous wrote:Just curious, for the people who don't let their teens keep their phones in their rooms, what do they do for alarms? I teach HS and at least 95% of my students say they use phone alarms. Please don't tell me you are still waking your kids up at their ages!

They still make standalone alarm clocks, you know. They're really cheap. And alarm clocks for Nest.

Anonymous wrote:Just curious, for the people who don't let their teens keep their phones in their rooms, what do they do for alarms? I teach HS and at least 95% of my students say they use phone alarms. Please don't tell me you are still waking your kids up at their ages!

They still make alarm clocks

Anonymous wrote:Just curious, for the people who don't let their teens keep their phones in their rooms, what do they do for alarms? I teach HS and at least 95% of my students say they use phone alarms. Please don't tell me you are still waking your kids up at their ages!

Yeah my teen sets an alarm on their phone. Mommy can’t supervise forever!