How Teens and Parents Approach Screen Time
www.pewresearch.org
Most teens at least sometimes feel happy and peaceful when they don’t have their phone, but 44% say this makes them anxious.
  • MasterHound@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    There has to be a happy medium between not isolating your kids while also protecting them from what is a highly corrupting environment. Maybe this is just hindsight, but I look back at my unfiltered internet access as a kid and am pretty pissed off that my parents didn’t get more involved.

    • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Tbh I had good filtered access as a kid but was rabid for more and private internet access, so kinda went off the deep end when I got a phone. I’m not sure what my parents could have done