Comment on Fediverse for teens
Mac@mander.xyz 6 days ago
They will encounter the awful sides of the internet in their lives. It is a fact of the internet.
What are you doing/going to do to prepare them for that eventuality?
You can’t protect children from life—you can only prepare them to handle it as best they can.
Bravo@eviltoast.org 5 days ago
Honestly, nowadays a part of the “birds and bees” talk should include an explanation of privacy settings and common Internet scams.
riverSpirit@thelemmy.club 5 days ago
This isn’t like a real thing is it? I never knew anyone who ever had such a talk, it was always something we’d hear about in American movies/shows, but like it doesn’t actually happen does it?
Bravo@eviltoast.org 5 days ago
I don’t have kids so I dunno if it’s still happening, but my dad had a brief and very awkward conversation with me to tell me that if I had sex to make sure to use a condom but if I ever did get a girl pregnant I could always tell him and it’d be OK, we’d figure it out, etc. Nothing fancy or anything; just the essentials to make sure I wasn’t a dumbass about sex.