my mom has this picture of me framed in our house from when I was a toddler and it's it's an unflattering picture I'm I'm doing something very unflattering and I always think thank god that we didn't have social media it's like that if like as an adult that was the image that people associated with me still life yeah you know if that image went viral oh it will be a nightmare well

we say like oh so as a millennial one of our biggest things is well I'm so glad that my teenage years weren't blasted on the internet or my childhood wasn't blasted on the internet yeah we are some of the worst for doing it to our own children so it's just really interesting sometimes how people are connecting that right like you wouldn't want it done to you you're glad it wasn't done to you yet you're actively doing it to your children you just

need to self reflect on that that's so interesting I hadn't thought about that but you're so right that we are the ones doing it and we didn't we we are always talking about how we're happy it didn't happen to us and we're turning it around and doing it to the next generation

exactly right and I think I I worry because some people are like well you know your kids aren't here why do you care well I care because I care about kids I care about the generation of humans my children are growing up with and around and amongst right and right now what we know to be true is that the teens are really suffering they're becoming increasingly addicted to their smartphones and their screens rates of you know anxiety depression suicide mental health in general have skyrocketed since the advent of social media over the past two decades and my gut as a parent says that if this is where our teens are at now why would we think it's going to be better for the next generation why do we think having our kids online and plastered on the internet at such a young age is going to benefit them down the line right yeah

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