A Parent's Guide to Teen Social Media: What Your Kids Aren't Telling You by Beam Bjorn

Author:Beam, Bjorn [Beam, Bjorn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beam Reach Ventures LLC
Published: 2020-04-26T16:00:00+00:00

This sense of self-inflated assuredness can get teens in trouble online. Obviously, a twenty-nine-year-old adult knows not to send personal information and images to a predator online. It goes without saying. However, a teen has not yet experienced that much life, hardship, or genuine danger. They do not know what is really out there in the real world, so they are willing to test the waters in the meantime.

In their minds, they think: “What could go wrong?”

We were all teens once, which means we all had minds that functioned in a similar manner.

The problem is that there is a lot your teen does not know. Too much. In fact, we shelter them from not knowing, because the world out there is dark, brutal, and unbearable at times, especially today.

This is a chapter that challenges you to see things from your teen’s perspective, so you can better understand why they do what they do online.

What Your Teen Doesn’t Understand About Social Media

Problem 1: Real Stranger Danger

In reality, sometimes the perpetrator is not a stranger—and kids let their guard down, placing themselves in danger. This sadly sums everything up perfectly. There is a twofold problem when it comes to the internet and your teenager’s access to the internet:

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