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Fediverse for teens
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this post was submitted on 29 May 2025
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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.
Honestly, nowadays a part of the "birds and bees" talk should include an explanation of privacy settings and common Internet scams.
This isn’t 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 it doesn’t actually happen does it?
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.
@riverSpirit @Bravo
My kids and I have most definitely had conversations about how babies are made. I didn't have to sit them down to have 'a talk', though.