Recovered from yesterday's escapade
Anyways I was reading a BBC article about roblox and how it's unsafe for children and how it's owner claimed that if parents don't want their kid on the platform that the should just not let their kids on the platform with rased a lot of questions on whether parents are parenting anymore which reminded me of Mt own childhood. I was allowed to play whatever games I wanted on my iPad but if my mum or dad explained to me that it was dangerous we would stop using it. In short our parents parented and monitored what we played to keep us safe from the platforms. I was not allowed do a lot of things until I turned 16 when it comes to social media
While I do think platforms like roblox should strive to do more to protect young people I also believe that parents should step up in monitoring their children and the games that they play and if the think the game is inappropriate for the child they should be honest and explain to the child how the game is not good and that they should stop playing it. I also may have just been a completely different child to most children today but I still believe that parents also have to put in the work to raise their children and not every social media or online platform must bend over backwards to cater to only children so parents can have an excuse to not parent or raise them.
This is only my opinion after reading the article and my thoughts are not gospel just because I had a different upbringing to other people does not mean every child will respond the same to being told that the game that they play Is bad.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk 😁