An internal research study at Meta found that parental supervision may not help teens regulate their social media, and teens with trauma are more inclined to overuse social media.
It’s teaching them what’s good to consume or not and how to tell the difference by themselves that’s important. Teching them how to think basically. So parenting. Not watching them, not spying on them asking “why that site”. Parental control filters only work for so long, but they help. My experience using parental control however to limit screen time only is that it only taught our kid to absolutely completely use whatever screentime she had. So kind of addicted. But, now she’s a teenager very good at telling what’s toxic. For the little story for the past 9 years i’ve been a remote cybersecurity engineer. She practically grew up with me in the next room working on 5 screens at once, there was no escaping it. But, I was always around so we always talked. It helps!
It’s teaching them what’s good to consume or not and how to tell the difference by themselves that’s important. Teching them how to think basically. So parenting. Not watching them, not spying on them asking “why that site”. Parental control filters only work for so long, but they help. My experience using parental control however to limit screen time only is that it only taught our kid to absolutely completely use whatever screentime she had. So kind of addicted. But, now she’s a teenager very good at telling what’s toxic. For the little story for the past 9 years i’ve been a remote cybersecurity engineer. She practically grew up with me in the next room working on 5 screens at once, there was no escaping it. But, I was always around so we always talked. It helps!