Hi, it’s me on my Technology Soapbox again, please please please watch Childhood 2.0, it will break your heart…Every parent, aunt, uncle, or grandparent needs to watch it, not those with teens, like ALL of US…It’s free. Every kid said they wish social media never existed. Make good choices now; your kids are worth it! We need to become the experts here! Technology can be an awesome thing. I have a career in technology, and I love it, but we have so much work to do as parents and as a community! “Love your kids. Talk to them about this until they are a little bit annoyed.” These kids know that if their parents saw what they see and do on their phones, they would never see their phones again!
We have traded a false sense of safety for putting our kids in riskier situations. We have left kids to deal with the ugly side of technology on their own.
NMK Syndrome…not my kid, school, or community. You are wrong. Educate yourself, educate your kids. Don’t give up!
Key take always:
Anxiety and mental health issues galore
Boredom…if we interrupt boredom and fill with screens, we are removing the opportunity for kids to deal with their own thoughts.
From 2010 to 2017, suicide in kids increased over 50%, not just in teens but children. 1.12 MILLION kids went to the ER with attempts or thoughts in 2015. 42% under 11 years old.
27% of video content on the internet is considered pornographic or explicit. Imagine growing up, and there were 4 magazines on the coffee table, and 1 was pornographic, and every day your parents just hoped every day that you didn’t look at the wrong one…that is what the unfiltered internet is for kids today. We have put little boxes of porn in their pocket under the guise…but I need to get ahold of them.
In 2019 porn sites received more traffic than Amazon, Netflix, and Twitter combined. It’s on every platform that many parents think is acceptable.
An experiment was done where they posted a profile for an 11-year-old girl on social media. In less than 30 minutes, she had a friend request from a man with an explicit profile pic. When kids are allowed to have a phone in their room at night, you are allowing strangers in your kids' room at night.
A whole bunch of disturbing stuff on sexting and the impact it’s having on both girls and boys.
Watch the documentary. Talk with your kids! Use Circle, Bark, or other software to put guardrails up! Don’t throw your hands up!
Tech Police
Childhood 2.0
***There is an appropriate middle school version on YouTube you should consider watching with your middle schoolers!
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