Should We Ban Children from Social Media?

So before we get into the nitty-gritty of the topic-

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I want to ask the parents to think about this.

When we say that our kids are spending too much time on their phone, what exactly are we worried about? Are we worried about missed sleep? Um, that it's affecting schoolwork? Are we worried about the content that they're watching? Are we worried about family time? Or do we just not like seeing a teenager absorbed in something that we generally do not understand?

So I had a good old think about this-

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... right, in relation to our two kids.

So Maggie, like, TikTok and Snapchat and stuff like that would've just been becoming popular in Ireland when she was, like, getting reliable access to a smartphone, not just a brick.

And I actually took the liberty of asking her about this.

I rang her, and I asked her about this.

And I was kinda saying, like, you know, is there something that you wish we had done differently, or is there something that you wish kids coming younger than you would understand about social media?

And for those of you who don't know, our daughter is 18-

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... and our son is turning 16, um, early next year, and she's now away in college.

So-

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... she's like a fully fledged young adult.

Yes, on her own terms.

On her own terms, yeah.

Kind of.

Yeah.

Um, so yeah, so I did ask her those questions, and I said, like, you know, she was kinda...

She said, "I think I got access to them too late." And I said [laughs]--

Oh, what?