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When my daughter watches stuff online. I watch with her so we can discuss and interact with each other, aka quality time. That’s not helicopter parenting
by midhhhthrow 4y ago
When my daughter watches stuff online. I watch with her so we can discuss and interact with each other, aka quality time. That’s not helicopter parenting
- earleybird 4y agoYou're quite right. There's a huge difference between coddling and teaching valuable life skills (like critical thought).
- warkdarrior 4y agoWhen your daughter is 14 or 15 years old, are you still going to watch all her online stuff with her? Or are you going to give her some privacy? And are you confident she'll be mature enough at 14 to handle all online content?
- midhhhthrow 4y agoAt a certain point you’ll have to trust your youngster to make their own decisions on online content , mid teens seems like A good time to do that
- nineplay 4y agoYou watch everything she watches and then discuss everything she watches? Sheesh, if I was your kid I'd find that pretty overbearing. How about letting her have her own headspace? I'd be more motivated to sneak around my internet activity just so I could watch something embarrassing like Smurf cartoons.
- midhhhthrow 4y agoAt age 7 you should be watching everything with your kid. If that’s too much then they’re watching too much video content.
- nineplay 4y agoYou've mentioned two extremes - 7 year olds should be completely supervised, 14/15 year olds can make their own decisions. Do you think there ages between 7 and 14 when kids should be allowed to watch videos unsupervised and kids should have some form of filtering they don't see inappropriate content? If so, who will provide that filtering? You probably can because you post to HN but not every parent will have that skillset
- midhhhthrow 4y agoThere is a huge difference between a 7 year old and a 15 year old. Massive difference in maturity