I will not deny it to them. Plus, it was their primary communication with peers during lockdowns, I am not going to put toothpaste back to tube. Social media are part of current world whether I like it or not. Teens are at the stage where you need to be releasing them gradually and they should become independent, get jobs or go to college soon.
I find the impulse to deny it all fascinating in combination with outrages over pre-teens and tees walking themselves or using public transport, expectation of without constant supervision till age of 18 and so on. There is knee jerk streak of "control everything as tightly as possible". Except that, they should be growing independent. And also fascinating contrast against how toxic online communities gets treated - I have yet to see the call to prevent boys from playing online games as strategy despite some of those peer groups being fairly toxic both in ideology and behavior.
I find the impulse to deny it all fascinating in combination with outrages over pre-teens and tees walking themselves or using public transport, expectation of without constant supervision till age of 18 and so on. There is knee jerk streak of "control everything as tightly as possible". Except that, they should be growing independent. And also fascinating contrast against how toxic online communities gets treated - I have yet to see the call to prevent boys from playing online games as strategy despite some of those peer groups being fairly toxic both in ideology and behavior.