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[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Kids like this are spending all their time online anyway so they won't ask to do stuff like jump off the roof or any other kind of normal kid mischief.

They're sitting in discord chatrooms talking with who knows who. Maybe they're just playing games online with their friends, maybe they're getting sucked into weird rabbit holes, maybe they're getting groomed by actual pedophiles. Unless you are monitoring the kid you don't know.

Parents are too permissive about a lot of things they really shouldn't be. And others are too strict about things they're better off being permissive with. You wouldn't let your kid go wander downtown by themselves cause of the weirdos that are out, but they'll be allowed to wander online where you can't see them. Ultimately you've got to let your kid have a safe place to play and get into minor mischief with minimal parental interference otherwise they'll end up going online behind your back and you'll have no influence whatsoever.

It's the irony of this age, parents are terrified of letting their kids go outside unsupervised because of predators, yet they have no issue letting them play online unsupervised where things are arguably even more dangerous in some ways.