A Child’s TikTok Stardom Opens Doors. Then a Gunman Arrives

Re:A Child’s TikTok Stardom Opens Doors. Then a Gunman Arrives by rayiner on Friday February 18, 2022 @06:27PM (#30392590)

I’ve got three. Studies show that the strongest influence on kids are their peers. Problem is that kids are dumb and irrational—again, undeveloped frontal cortex and with teenagers, hormones—especially in groups. As a result, parents need to carefully control both who their kids socialize with, and the nature of those social interactions. Social media compounds those problems.

Permissive parenting that treats kids like little adults and over-emphasizes cultivation of their individual relationships and preferences does them a disservice. It’s like letting a drunk person drive a car.

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Re:A Child’s TikTok Stardom Opens Doors. Then a Gunman Arrives by long_time_gone on Monday February 21, 2022 @10:27AM (#30416877)

> Studies show that the strongest influence on kids are their peers.

Could you please share? The ones I'm finding say that parents are the strongest influence [1] [2] [3] [4].

> Permissive parenting that treats kids like little adults and over-emphasizes cultivation of their individual relationships and preferences does them a disservice.

Parenting that attempts to "carefully control" interactions until their 25th birthday seems like a disservice of equal size. I met some of these kids when I got to University. They didn't fare very well without their parents to control everything. As with most things, the answer is likely in the middle.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4826572/

[2] https://blogs.iadb.org/desarrollo-infantil/en/parental-behav...

[3] https://archive.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu13se/uu13se06.h...

[4] https://www.mckendree.edu/academics/scholars/issue17/green.h...

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