Parents do you read your kids social media messages and do they know that they do? If so to what age?

Do you wrestle with the morality of it?

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My son reads all his sons messages, monitors his YouTube channel, reads all his xbox messages and basically lurks behind or follows him wherever he has been online.
Hes 11.
At some point it will be wrong, but for now, no regrets.

Clarabee · 22-25, F

@nonsensiclesnail tbh I’d do the same

nonsensiclesnail · F

@Clarabee He’s a super social kid. He doesn’t get that everyone who says they’re a kid isn’t a kid or that anyone has intentions outside of gameplay. It’s been a struggle, of sorts, since he was about 6. Telling people his name, where he lives, his school name…. Now that he’s a little older he kind of gets it. But he still feels that hanging out with friends of his friends online is totally reasonable online. We really have to watch him and who he talks to. All he wants is a huge pile of friends and an audience to perform for! It’s a little exhausting.