Parents, you’re destroying your kids
If you’re a parent allowing your children unfettered access to social media, you’re willfully abdicating your responsibility to protect and at grave risk of irreparably damaging them.
And that’s not an exaggeration. As a parent of daughters ages 8 and 11, I’m increasingly perplexed, disturbed and flat-out flummoxed by the moms and dads out there who hand over a smartphone and let their young ones surf Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok.
The list of platforms is much longer than that, but those are the “big 5” — the most monumental social media megaphones perpetuating society’s insatiable addiction to doom scrolling.
If we’re honest, most adults are addicted to one or more of these platforms, as minutes often turn to hours of wasted time watching random content. And as our kids observe us drooling over the latest TikTok trends, they, too, naturally want access to the same “high.”
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