Joshua Wood

Almost all of the “worst” situations I’ve seen involving kids is when they feel they’ve gotten into a hole and have no where else to turn. Make sure they know they can always turn to you if they’re in trouble, or if they feel they made a mistake. (Mike Masnick)

This is such an important point. There is so much exploitation (online and off) that depends on isolating kids from adults and their peers.

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  • I think it can be a vicious cycle though - the more screen time kids have access to the more likely they are to create their own separate worlds there and start to use it as their main social attachments

  • That hasn’t been our experience so far, but we’ll see. Like I mentioned in my thread, they tend to get bored with the screen time after a while.

  • I’m also just not sure it’s a bad thing if they socialize digitally, as long as they are also socializing/communicating with us. Many of my friends were online too (and still are). Planning to dig into more of the research Mike mentioned here. www.techdirt.com/2024/04/22/j...

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