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jemmywtoday at 2:36 AM2 repliesview on HN

Engage with your kids. Don't give them personal devices until they're a bit older. Monitor their usage properly with your own senses, not with "parental controls". Talk to them about what they do.

If they're minded to bypass all that then they're going to bypass any technical block you put on anyway.


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kelseyfrogtoday at 2:39 AM

That's the option we have now and it's not working. Please suggest and alternative that works.

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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 3:18 AM

> If they're minded to bypass all that then they're going to bypass any technical block you put on anyway

School bans have been effective because the entire friend group is taken off at once. That network effect is important. We need a real solution for keeping kids off social media—there is too much popular will for this not to happen. The debate is realistically around how.