• erwan@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    That’s the problem that everyone shouting “parents need to parent better” here is ignoring.

    If you cut off access to the group chat, her friends are not going to call her daily on your landline (that maybe you don’t have) to exchange gossips. What will happen is that she’ll be out of the loop, isolated from the group. When they’re planning an afternoon out they might forget to tell her.

    You can’t make your kids live in a 90’s bubble, because when we were kids in the 90’s we had friends living like us. Cut off your kid from messenging and you cut them from their friends and isolate to them from their age class.

    That’s absolutely not good for them, and it’s not good parenting.

    (Not talking about you comment parent BTW, your parenting is fine, I’m just responding to your comment to address all those saying it’s just parents’ fault)

    • realitista
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      7 months ago

      Yes this is the fine line you have to walk. I’ve cut off tik tok, limited many others to 1h a day, but you can’t cut them off completely or you cut off their access to their friends.