Comment by theultdev
5 days ago
The only proper solution always used for children. Parent's discretion.
Other people's kids are not my nor the governments business.
I will restrict social media as I see fit for my children. Don't need a nanny state.
No need for "think of the children". You shouldn't be thinking of my children, they are fine. Worry about yourself and your own kids.
> The only proper solution always used for children. Parent's discretion.
Cigarettes. Alcohol. Gambling. Weapons. Credit cards and financial products. Solvents/aerosols. Fireworks.
There are tons of products and services that are subject to regulation for children because society has concluded (wisely in most cases) that it is not always possible or effective to rely on parental discretion to prevent harm.
> You shouldn't be thinking of my children, they are fine.
Extreme individualism is in my opinion one of Western society's biggest sore spots right now but I'd like to point out one very practical issue with this approach as it relates to social media.
I can keep my kids off of social media, but social media can still harm them. Your kids can take photos and videos of my kids and post them online without anyone's consent, and use social media to bully my kids.
There is a growing body of evidence about the harms of social media on children's' mental health, particularly as it relates to bullying, and plenty of cases of suicides caused by it.
But I suppose there are other possible solutions. We could enact laws that levy more significant civil and perhaps even criminal penalties on parents whose children use social media to harass and bully. Right now, when parents are found liable for damage caused by their children, civil penalties are usually pretty modest.
If your children, who you say are fine, do something to make my children not fine, you should be willing to take full responsibility for that, right?
Just teach your children to not care what's on social media.
It's a mental attitude. We used to be stronger. Teach that.
People will be assholes, social media or not. Toughen up.
And yeah we ban sold products, not like that does anything though.
Kids will still drink, do drugs, and smoke if they want to. It's not like they won't have siblings of friends that are 18+.
It still comes down to parenting to prevent them from going down that slope.
People being weak and thin skinned is the sore spot in America, not individualism, that's a strength.
> Just teach your children to not care what's on social media.
> It's a mental attitude. We used to be stronger. Teach that.
> People being weak and thin skinned is the sore spot in America, not individualism, that's a strength.
I hope while you're molding your children into strong, thick-skinned individuals who are impervious to everything that happens around them, you remind them that respect, kindness and compassion are virtues too.
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