Parents play a critical role in their children's relationship with social media

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Parents play a critical role in influencing their children's relationship with social media and the parents' awareness of the topic is a key factor. Video by Annika Rhoades.

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00:00So we've got a 14-year-old daughter and she uses her technology quite a lot.

00:08She's got an iPad and a mobile phone.

00:11In Simon Holmes's household two of his three children are at the age

00:14where much of their communication with friends is through social media.

00:19Probably feel that to teach them how to use it responsibly

00:23they need to be using it and we just try and monitor their usage of it.

00:28It comes amid a national debate around raising the age of social media usage in Australia.

00:34Lots of conversation around raising the legal age kids can join social media to 16.

00:41There are so many parents now that hand devices over to kids without any restrictions without

00:47any controls and really have this experience that we kind of jokingly refer to as not my child

00:55you know it's not going to happen to my child my child's a good kid.

00:59Nevertheless building and maintaining a respectful relationship between children

01:04tech and socials is important.

01:06The positives would be at least for our situation because Arlo is autistic

01:12is that it really does help with his social skills learning the rules that we all take for granted.

01:19But the negative parts would definitely be the addictive nature.

01:23Arlo is hyper focused on the things that he's interested in you know

01:27screen time is something all games that is something that he's

01:31one of the things he's really focused on.

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