When the world' most perfect (then) toodler was just over 4 years old, we always went to preschool after he had finished watching Roary the Racing Car. One morning felt unusually long. We thought nothing more of it and patiently waited for the program to end.
When I started the car, I discovered to my horror that we are almost an hour late. That's when we learned that Junior had learned to stream TV programs. We learned that we must stay ahead of him and try to anticipate the possible dangers of his presence in the digital world. I am well aware that we cannot lock him out of everything. The only platform he is allowed to have is Whats up, mostly based on the chat groups created by other peers at school.
Even though he is superior to us in that world these days, he respects that he is not allowed to have either TikTok or Facebook. As luck would have it, one of his buddies put up a short clip on Youtube of the two of them without our approval many years ago. YMD hates this clip like the plague and cannot get the clip removed. It has really made it easier for us to get him to understand that what ends up online ends up there forever.
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