Parents, You’re Failing Your Kids. Stop Doing This!

Today’s topic really opens up a can of worms…

I have a bunch to discuss, but first, let me lay the groundwork for this one…

There’s a nationwide coalition of parents pushing back against Big Tech. In fact, these parents come from both sides of the isle, the Red and Blue side. To the best of their ability, they’re laying politics aside and galvanizing support behind their war against Big Tech.

So what’s it all about?

Children and social media.

Yes, something I’ve always been against.

Unfortunately, the two women in the article I read both lost their sons to cyberbullying. Their sons were bullied online so bad, both boys committed suicide.

Horrible.

One mother is a Republican, and the other is a Democrat.

Now, the best part of this this story is the parents are working together, despite their political differences. However, the goal is to get the government involved, so the government will regulate social media companies.

Guess what they’re looking for?

Age restrictions on social media.

While that may sound like a good idea, here’s the problem…

It will require unified online digital identification. That means more government intervention in your life. That’s the last thing any of us need.

Now, this is where I climb up onto my high horse…

Look, I feel horrible for these parents, I really do. However, they’re going about this the wrong way.

Is social media a problem?

Absolutely!

Look at our society.

Since the invention of social media and the “smart phone,” our world has changed for the worse. People are rude, people are more likely to divorce, people are conceded, people suffer from all sorts of mental issues. Much of this comes from behavioral patterns created by social media, it’s just a fact.

I could go off on a tangent on this one, but I’ll spare you.

Regardless of what you believe on that, do you know who is to blame?

The parents in the article I linked.

Yes, if the parents had chosen to monitor their children’s online behavior, their boys would still be alive. If the parents didn’t allow their children on social media, their boys would still be alive.

I’m sure there’s a lot of people scoffing at that right now.

Yet, those same people have children who are on, social media.

So here’s the reality…

What is social media?

It’s worldly, it’s of this world.

Now, what did Jesus Christ say we’re to do?

Be separate from the world.

In fact, that’s the entire point of the Old Testament. In those days so long ago, God told His People to be separate from their world. God did not want His People to mimic what the others in the land were doing.

Do you know why?

He didn’t want His People to become perverted by the world around them.

Ding, ding, ding!

The same lesson applies today.

As a Christian people, there’s no value in having your child on social media, none.

“But Brandon, they can learn X, Y, and Z.”

Come off it.

You’re making excuses, just like the two mothers in that story.

Your children can learn online in other ways without social media. Besides, your kids should be outside meeting real children. Not people a thousand miles down the road. By having your child on social media, you’re exposing them to all sorts of perversion, filth, rotten behavior, modern social behavior, and so on, and you don’t even know it’s happening.

“But Brandon, it’s not that bad.”

That’s the same thing those two mothers said.

“But Brandon, my child wouldn’t get sucked into bad stuff!”

Get real.

You were a kid once, weren’t you?

Were you always an angel baby?

Yeah, I didn’t think so.

When we get right down to it…

People don’t like to admit when they screw up!

You know why?

It means we have to admit failure, and no one wants to do that.

The two mothers in this story want to blame the death of their boys on anyone, but themselves. Yet, they were the parent. They were the ones who decided to let Johny be a social media junky. They made that decision, but now, we need the government involved, we need to punish Big Tech.

I find it insane.

It’s parents like them that helped create Big Tech.

Yet, now it’s a problem.

For years, I’ve said social media is a cancer.

People go on there and post their best life experiences, their glamour gown, and so on. Yet, they never show you the bad moments that we all have. They never show you the time they got fired, the time they got in a wreck, or woke up looking like a monster before they plastered all that makeup on, and don’t forget, those AI filters.

So get real people.

Get real and start holding yourself accountable for your own actions.

Far too often we always want to blame someone else for everything that breaks in our life. It was our wife or our husband, or it was the boss or the guy next door. It’s always someone else, and it’s never us. I tell you what, that’s a phony fake person right there.

A person that cannot be honest with themselves…. Well, you fill in the blank.

In reality, we all mess up, we all make mistakes, and the sooner we start admitting that to ourselves, the sooner we can correct our mistakes and prevent future ones from occurring.