The unsupervised nature of how kids use them might be part of the problem. How are parents supposed to know when it's tipping over? No parent listening to this right now is going to have a child that kills people. But almost all of us could have a children that makes a races joke that makes another kid feeln knowingly or unknowingly. You have to prepare te early. If your kids already 18, and you haven't prepared them. You haveto prepare them now to see racs media and to interpret it and to debunk it.
Writer and parent Joanna Schroeder wrote a guide for parents about what to look out for and how to intervene.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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