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From my experience, kids with helicopter parents never achieve their true potential in life. Trust your own kids, you'll find that they're more capable than you

• fnordpiglet 3y ago
  Trust but verify. The art of parenting is giving them freedom within guardrails. The internet is about as safe as an intellectual wood chipper, very useful but can chew you up. While I would let my kid use a wood chipper, I will definitely supervise and ensure she’s wearing goggles and gloves, no matter how much I trust her. I’d also note that as a male, I assume, gaming culture and chat culture is a lot safer. For females, surely you’ve noticed it’s not quite the same experience. This is probably the biggest tragedy of online culture, the extreme overt misogyny and aggressive sexualization of any girl that dares let her gender be discovered. Girls are broadly predated upon, and the boys parents never believe Johny could do that until you confront them with the logs. Bullying, sextortion, etc, are endemic and rampant. If you’ve not got direct experience with a young girl using these things I’d withhold judgement until you do. And honestly it’s a bit hard to take parenting advice on hacker news given by non parents, no offense meant.