https://www.professorshouse.com/3-ways-to-keep-kids-safe-in-the-age-of-social-media/ Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:51:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.professorshouse.com/3-ways-to-keep-kids-safe-in-the-age-of-social-media/#comment-1081962 Mon, 18 Sep 2023 19:07:07 +0000 https://www.professorshouse.com/?p=34672#comment-1081962 We have considerable experience with three children. We have just sent off our handsome son to the University of Chicago. Regarding social media. The solution is easy. Stop the fiddling around. Remove all computers, cell phones, Ipads, and laptops. Take it all away. Period. What does the “poor kid” do, well, what people did before the internet and before computers. Take it away. When we did this for our son, the tantrums and the hatred was red hot. For help, we had consulted an older, female PhD psychologist for counseling regarding this issue. She said to us: Suppose you remove all electronics, what is the kid going to do? You are the parent and you are in control, you need to take responsibility. Some time after we removed the electronics, our son began running track. First he did cross country. Then he joined the track team. He became Captain of the team in senior year. He lifts weights regularly and seriously. Well, while all those social media types are languishing and staring at a screen, our kid was blasting off. Now is he so handsome, he has a very steady girl friend who is going to a great University in New York to study the performing arts. So, none of this complaining and worrying: remove the source of the problem and never look back.

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