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by hkt
1732 days ago
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For what it is worth, I have a son a little younger than yours and have decided I will do the same. My reasoning is that these platforms (as we've recently seen) know full well that they cause harm. That gets verified pretty regularly by independent researchers. Standing by and letting a preteen deal with that on their own has predictable enough results: my job is to Sherpa kiddo through life and part of that involves deploying myself as a kind of surrogate sense of self regulation when his fails. I'm pretty liberal and allow privacy on most things (I would never read a diary etc) but draw a line between what he consumes and produces. Privacy is for production, at the moment. Private consumption can come later. tl;dr you did right, imo. |
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Yes and also to protect him from the adults who author addictive, compelling content that a 9-year old can’t be mature enough to protect against.
If you don’t regulate his internet activity, why do you regulate his diet? Why not allow him to eat whatever he wants whenever he wants?