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how do you know they don't know what it is? it's hard to believe when every other twitch streamer and Instagram influencer has an account they promote from their main page.
Because I'm actually involved in their lives? They also don't have unrelenting access to shit like Instagram and twitch.
You can see the difference with the school or neighborhood kids who do (some, not all, they're all different). We don't necessarily restrict them from associating with those kids, but we frequently check in, ask about things, watch some of the interactions, and provide context as necessary. Always focusing on what it means for them. What is their gain/loss. Essentially avoid the "because I said so" and focus on why they care about something (it helps to think selfishly if you were in their shoes).
Without aggressively steering their lives (like my parents did), it is interesting to me how when they're just basically supported like independent humans, with respect, and some decent but not overbearing guardrails, they basically have no interest in some of that stuff. That'll eventually change, but the peer pressure just doesn't seem to click the same as 30 years ago.
I think when you either don't parent at all, or aggressively parent, you inadvertently push kids where they shouldn't go. I would know cause I lived it. There's a balance somewhere in there and I'm watching it happen IRL for years now.
And to be clear, I am NOT tooting any horns. That's what my parents did. It was all about their success being parents. Fuck no. My job is to raise functional adults. They are not my property or trophy. This isn't about me or my success. Before anyone attacks that shit as usual. I'm just speaking honestly.
I don't think like a parent at all. I'm 18. I just can't imagine someone in junior high being that clueless because none of my classmates were. Heck even the Mormon kids in my class, arguably the most sheltered and naive, knew what content is available online because even if they didn't consume it, because they have friends and talk to their classmates.
what's more likely? that a bunch of hormonally charged teens don't talk about sexual topics, or that some aspect of a teenager's life isn't known to their parents?
The odds seem to favor number two, in my opinion. sorry.
Um, I'm going to fill you in on a secret:
Kids as young as 13 have nearly certainly viewed porn at some point.
And yes, even when I was a kid, whose parents had pretty strict controls over things back in the 70s and 80s... Guess what? We had a porn stash in our "hideout" in the woods.