Hello, my 10 year old daughter is keen to keep in contact with her friends outside of school hours. She has a iPad but it doesn’t have cellular. What is the best age appropriate way for her to do this? She currently can message select family from her iPad who have a Apple phone, but what’s can I do to help her widen these contacts who don’t have a iPhone? What has worked for you? And what should I steer clear of?
Thank you
10 year old and messaging
Thursday, 17 March 2022 - 18:25
10 year old and messaging
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Kids
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Messenger for kids
Stay clear of it all it’s asking for trouble. My kids aren’t allowed to have any access to their friends after school, if their friends want to contact then they have my number. That way I can see it all and limit it. The Amount of kids that are bullied or cause drama on these apps is shocking. It’s up to us as parents to protect them from that. Protect their mental health. I don’t care what people think of my response. I see it daily with friends and their kids and it’s hard to undone some of this bullying that they go through. Friends telling them to go and do awful things to themselves etc. it’s terrible. Protect her as long as you can from these things. People can say they monitor it but if they did, kids wouldn’t have that issues that they have today. The arguments I hear between parents, my kid wouldn’t have messaged that, your kid did and blah blah blah.. They will live without it and the drama. If you are going to allow it, stick to 1-2 of her closest friends that’s it.
Kids messenger. They play games together and chat and you can control and see everything.
Messenger kids. You can read anything and everything. Nothing can be deleted, you control who is on the friends list. Content is limited asto ehatcsn be shared.