05/04/2026
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Slow it down parents and STOP.
Big tech has got everyone in a tail spin.
We must protect childhood. We are placing children into digital arenas before their own identity has even had the chance to form, before they even know their own voice, what they like, they are absorbing everyone else’s. Before they understand their worth, they are measuring it. Before they have built any confidence, they are comparing it.
This is harmful exposure. This is interference with their development.
It is that serious. A public health crisis.
A child’s early years are meant for grounding and innocence, we must protect their time for real connections, real play, real boredom, real conversations. They need to experience who they are in the safety and strength of family, not in the performance of an online world.
When we allow social media too early, we hand over influence to strangers, to trends, to algorithms that DO NOT CARE about the wellbeing of our children. We replace our guidance with noise. We replace our presence with distraction and we ask children to navigate pressures they are not yet equipped to understand, let alone manage.
By the teenage years, the stakes are even higher. Identity, self worth, belonging, all of it becomes entangled with external validation. The question quietly shifts from Who am I to Am I enough. This is not okay!
As parents, our responsibility is not to keep our children away from the world forever. It is to prepare them for it. Preparation requires timing. It requires boundaries. It requires leadership.
Protection is not us punishing. It is not control. It is care.
A child who knows who they are is far less likely to be defined by anyone else. Our government knows this and need to step up and lead. Protect our children, enough with the consultation, act now! Jo x
