This article is making something really complicated out of a situation that has a really simple solution. As soon as your kid is old enough to actually use a ph

This article is making something really complicated out of a situation that has a really simple solution. As soon as your kid is old enough to actually use a phone which is like 4th grade get your kid an iPhone, set up the parental controls to your tolerance, and then gradually take away the parental controls as they get older. Swear words / explicit music is fine around 4rd grade, violence and explicit music videos 6th grade, porn around 8th, buying things for themselves is around freshman year, screen time lifted and sending and receiving nudes is sophomore year. You're not going to fix social media being awful by depriving your kid of it, you'll only socially isolate them and make sure that when they're making their first mistakes with it they'll be old enough for those mistakes to matter. Also in the same vein ffs people give your kids alcohol in a controlled setting, both casually like with dinner and letting them go to or hosting parties where you can literally take all their keys. The number of people I knew in college who had to get their stomach pumped because they literately didn't know how alcohol worked/affected them was too damn high. The gap between what's legal and right is huge when it comes to this because we still haven't shaken off our puritan roots. This article is so out of touch it's hilarious, teenagers not only can handle the news just fine but are a group that's more politically active than your average adult. I am constantly shocked at just how much people forget what it was like to be a teenager. Let me tell you who I'm surrounded by at protests, it ain't 30yo professionals.