Adolescence on Netflix: Why Every Parent Needs to Watch
By now we have all heard about it: a new four-part series on Netflix “Adolescence”. To be honest, we went in sceptical. Was this going to be another show about kids and the horrors of social media? Straight up, and for the record, Adolescence is parent-watch-worthy. It’s raw, it’s real, and yes, it made our […]
Is your child a Lolcow? Or laughing at other Lolcows?
A Lolcow is a person who is repeatedly made fun of online because they react emotionally or take the bait when people provoke them. The term comes from “LOL” (laugh out loud) and “cow” (because they are metaphorically “milked” for laughs).
Mom, guess what!! Taylor Swift and me… we both have anxiety!
Self-diagnosis in the age of Social Media “I’m not going to the party because I suffer from social anxiety”.“I can’t study because I’ve got ADHD”.“I want to change schools because I’m depressed”. Our kids love TikTok for a host of reasons but the latest one brings with it the challenge of self diagnosis! Yup,TikTok is […]
Why and how Snapchat is killing your child’s self-esteem
There are lots of reasons kids love Snapchat, but one of the biggies is the way in which they can assess their own social standing in their group of friends. That is a wild concept – at any given point, your child can see just how popular or dismissed or ignored they are relative to their friend and frenemy!
“I feel so fat!” said every t(w)een girl size 0-20
Navigating diet culture and fatphobia is full of land mines, especially when our t(w)eens are scrolling on social media over one skinny super model after the next. But the real comparison (especially online) is between them and their friends.