{"id":1490097,"date":"2022-05-24T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490097"},"modified":"2022-05-24T14:00:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T18:00:39","slug":"three-reasons-to-keep-your-kids-off-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-reasons-to-keep-your-kids-off-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Reasons To Keep Your Kids Off Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthree-reasons-to-keep-your-kids-off-social-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490097&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As you may know, I am in full Mama Bear mode these days. With one toddler already and my second child due in July, I have become intensely focused on raising, protecting, nurturing, and teaching my children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who have kids, you know what I\u2019m talking about. You\u2019ve experienced firsthand how the process of becoming apparent causes a fundamental change in you. Moms, you know that before your baby even gets here you begin a process of child-proofing your home. You secure all the sockets with those plastic coverings. You take your fragile decorations out of arm\u2019s reach. You replace sharp and precarious furniture with more kid-friendly pieces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is the instinct of any parent who is remotely in tune with their child\u2019s well-being. You protect them from harm by whatever means possible. And it plays out in every area of life. You don\u2019t give them too much sugar, you don\u2019t let them play in the middle of the road, you don\u2019t let them wander off with strangers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is therefore astounding to me that parents who otherwise protect their children would allow them to have access to dangerous and damaging technology like social media. A couple of months ago, I made some comments about the Kim and Kanye debacle over whether or not their daughter North should be allowed to have a social media platform and presence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And I just can\u2019t let this go. I want to dive deeper today with you and share three reasons why you should keep your kids off social media.<\/p>\n<p>A Childhood Stolen<\/p>\n<p>First, social media robs kids of their childhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As human beings develop, we should be exposed to certain ideas and images at appropriate times. Kids should be allowed to be kids. The primary concern of an eight-year-old should be who is coming to her sleepover, not whether or not she should get butt implants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And yet this is what we are seeing with kids on social media \u2014 they\u2019re growing up at warp speed into a twisted, perverted version of adulthood that, frankly, adults shouldn\u2019t even aspire to.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Childhood is precious and should be protected. Your kid should be dancing in real life, not dancing on TikTok.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Modern Pandora\u2019s Box<\/p>\n<p>Second, social media is devastating to your child\u2019s emotional and physical health.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Social platforms foster unhealthy competition, comparison, and expectations. When you give your child access to social media, you\u2019re also opening the door for the most extreme people and ideas on the planet to enter their minds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kids aren\u2019t emotionally equipped to process and evaluate all of this input. It\u2019s sensory overload to the max. By nature, young children are often incapable of dealing with their emotions in a reasonable manner, and social media heightens and amplifies their emotions \u2014 especially the negative ones \u2014 leaving them in a dangerous state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And we know it\u2019s girls who are most vulnerable to the effects of social media. Last year, BYU released findings from a 10-year study showing that as social media use increases among girls, so does their risk for suicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, I am in full Mama Bear mode these days. With one toddler already and my second child due in July, I have become intensely focused on raising, protecting, nurturing, and teaching my children.\u00a0 For those of you who have kids, you know what I\u2019m talking about. You\u2019ve experienced firsthand how the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":1490118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}