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Socially stunting your children in order to "save them" is the height of helicopter parental abuse.

• sibeliuss 4y ago
  Saving them from TikTok crack is hardly helicopter child abuse. It's responsible parenting. But it's also more than that. Simply not giving them a smartphone when they're 10 isn't enough. Parents have to also embody what they preach.
  • noobermin 4y ago
    There is a range here, I'm not talking about 10 year olds or 5 year olds. The article discusses young teenagers, and by that point many of their friends will be on social media, and keeping them off it will stunt their social growth and make them outcasts.
    • ahoya 4y ago
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• bart_spoon 4y ago
  I would strongly contest the idea that depriving a child of social media is “socially stunting” them. It isn’t as if children today are more socially adept after social media than children were for all of the millennia prior to social media, and if anything, there is evidence to the contrary. All of the options for socialization from pre-social media still widely available and applicable.