00;00;00;00 - 00;00;24;12 Speaker 1 Welcome to Navigating the Digital Playground, a limited podcast series from the Stevens Point Area Public School District. I'm Sarah O'Donnell, director of communications, and this series is all about helping families understand how students use technology and how we can partner together to support healthy digital habits. Today's episode Inside the Student Scroll, gives us a chance to hear directly from students about their experiences growing up online. 00;00;24;13 - 00;00;28;24 Speaker 1 What helps. What doesn't. And what they wish adults understood. 00;00;30;11 - 00;00;41;13 Speaker 1 Let's start with a quick round of introductions. I've got two Spanish students with me. Let's hear your first name grade and one app or digital tool that you use the most. 00;00;41;15 - 00;00;47;28 Speaker 2 Hello, my name is Brogan. I am a senior at Spanish and the app I use the most is Instagram. 00;00;48;00 - 00;00;54;11 Speaker 3 My name is Harper. I'm also senior at Spanish and the app I use the most is probably Snapchat or TikTok. 00;00;54;13 - 00;00;59;14 Speaker 1 Yeah, thank you for sharing that. I'm really excited to have both of you here and I feel like I should disclose. 00;00;59;14 - 00;01;04;20 Speaker 1 That harbor is my daughter. So some of the things that we'll be talking about today. 00;01;04;20 - 00;01;10;09 Speaker 1 I'm sure we'll get to talk about how you grew up and some of your social media. 00;01;10;09 - 00;01;31;02 Speaker 1 All right, you two. Well, thank you for being here. I really appreciate the opportunity to just chat through kind of your experiences online. Our goal is to just sort of share. I think we spent a lot of time, thinking about what it might be like for kids online, but we don't do enough of actually asking kids what it's like to be a student online right now. 00;01;31;04 - 00;01;35;22 Speaker 1 So as we go through your questions, I want you to feel like there are no wrong answers. 00;01;35;22 - 00;01;38;22 Speaker 1 We're just trying to gain some insight and hopefully. 00;01;38;22 - 00;01;41;28 Speaker 1 Get some advice from both of you on how. 00;01;42;00 - 00;01;45;19 Speaker 2 We adults can maybe do a little bit better in that area. 00;01;45;19 - 00;01;59;21 Speaker 1 I know Rogan you said Instagram and Harper you said Snapchat are kind of the two platforms that you are using the most right now. Why do you think that is? Like what do you think it is about those platforms that, makes you spend time on them? 00;01;59;21 - 00;02;17;13 Speaker 1 I think I use Instagram the most due to the fact that you can message, you can post on your story, you can watch Instagram Reels, you can talk to your friends, but you can still like follow celebrities, sports, media pages and just stuff like that. I think it's very versatile and you can do a lot on Instagram. 00;02;17;16 - 00;02;40;02 Speaker 2 Okay, well, my insight that, intriguing, but I probably use Snapchat the most because it's the easiest way I communicate with my friends. Snapping, texting, sending videos, watching stories, posting stories. And for me, like that's pretty important in communicating. So I definitely think that's why I use it most. Not as like entertainment, but communication. 00;02;40;03 - 00;02;45;04 Speaker 3 Yeah, that's really interesting because both could be used both for entertainment and communication. Right? 00;02;45;04 - 00;02;52;20 Speaker 1 Yeah, I, I use, Snapchat a lot to like, communicate. So okay. So that's probably my close second almost maybe even first. 00;02;52;20 - 00;03;05;23 Speaker 3 But, what are some of the other platforms that are out there? I know we like as adults often and parents think about, like I think Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok. 00;03;05;23 - 00;03;11;06 Speaker 1 Vsco. Are there others that like we just that you're using that we're not aware of? 00;03;11;06 - 00;03;37;20 Speaker 1 I think, yeah, there's definitely a lot of apps like that I use, but I would think those ones are the ones I use the most. But I use discord sometimes too. I used to use it a lot more when I used to play more games, but now I'm not really on that as much. I still use Facebook a lot too, but again, that's like for family and like when I'm looking at like what my grandma and grandpa are doing and grandma and grandpa appreciate that they do, they do they they like when I would reply to the comments, talk to them and then. 00;03;37;20 - 00;03;41;21 Speaker 1 I think those are like I mean, personally, that's kind of all I use. 00;03;41;21 - 00;03;51;26 Speaker 1 I know. Like, I don't know if you said YouTube, I feel I did not. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. I don't know how much people communicate. I'm not really big on YouTube. I do think that I personally have never used discord. 00;03;51;26 - 00;03;57;15 Speaker 1 I mean, every social media platform can be really dangerous, but I've heard some really, really scary things about discord. 00;03;57;15 - 00;03;59;07 Speaker 1 Let's think about discord for a minute. 00;03;59;07 - 00;04;00;26 Speaker 1 What do you wish that adults. 00;04;01;03 - 00;04;04;01 Speaker 2 Might know more about? Not just for discord, but maybe for. 00;04;04;01 - 00;04;06;13 Speaker 1 All social media platforms? 00;04;06;15 - 00;04;09;20 Speaker 2 When like just interacting or having. 00;04;09;20 - 00;04;33;15 Speaker 1 Questions about them. For me, I think like it's really scary, but it's really sick that like, no matter where you post yourself, where you post your kids, even if your kids don't post like themselves and you post them on even Facebook and platforms like that, like there are creepy people and people everywhere, like even Vsco, like people will go through myself and I have to block them because it's just weird. 00;04;33;15 - 00;04;54;16 Speaker 1 But it happens on every single social media platform. It can happen on Snapchat, discord, TikTok, like everything. So I think like even being like, oh, we're like, people think that that's like happening. But I just like really thinking about what you're putting out there. And I think that's like hard for kids. Like, especially me. When I was younger, I definitely didn't understand that, like at all. 00;04;54;16 - 00;05;04;16 Speaker 1 And I was just like, well, that's stupid. And I want to post what I want to post. But like growing up and just like getting a little bit older, there are some regrets that I have that I was just. 00;05;04;16 - 00;05;20;25 Speaker 1 I would actually have to agree with that one. I think discord is like a app you don't really even think about when it comes to like your kids on it, and it's just such a it's hard to tell who you're talking to, what you're talking to. People go on there, they act young, they act like a child, but they're actually not a child. 00;05;20;25 - 00;05;31;17 Speaker 1 Right. And I just think that's such a hard thing to like because it's just calling and texting. You don't really see profiles, you don't see images. And that's kind of like a scary place for kids to be. 00;05;31;19 - 00;05;36;06 Speaker 2 And as sorry, discord is primarily attached to gaming. Yeah. 00;05;36;06 - 00;05;41;17 Speaker 1 It's like it's meant for like calling while you're playing like a PlayStation game and Xbox game. Something like that. 00;05;41;18 - 00;05;46;15 Speaker 2 Okay, okay. So really access through that gaming platform or can you access discord through. 00;05;46;17 - 00;05;51;24 Speaker 1 You can access discord through anything. It's like an app that just stays open while you're in other apps. 00;05;51;24 - 00;05;53;20 Speaker 2 Okay, good. You know, it's. 00;05;53;20 - 00;05;59;21 Speaker 3 It's just like, I'm gonna relate it to old people slang. Facebook messenger. Yeah. 00;05;59;21 - 00;06;01;14 Speaker 1 It's like, like Facebook Messenger. 00;06;01;14 - 00;06;05;00 Speaker 2 Thank you. That makes sense to me. Thank you. 00;06;05;03 - 00;06;09;19 Speaker 3 But you can have, like, huge group chat with a bunch of people. You don't have to use your real name. No pictures. 00;06;09;19 - 00;06;10;07 Speaker 1 And that's why. 00;06;10;07 - 00;06;22;10 Speaker 3 It's like so I do think that's scary with like, Snapchat. Like for me at least when somebody's like sends me or adds me on Snapchat, I don't know them. I'm not gonna add them back. Whereas like, I don't know, I don't want to know how discord works. I don't know if you have to accept them. 00;06;22;10 - 00;06;34;13 Speaker 1 Discord, you you do. But at the same time you can still see the messages. Like you can still see the messages, but you if you actually want to reply, you have to accept them. But the thing is, you don't really know who they are when you're accepting them. You don't know anything. 00;06;34;13 - 00;06;35;26 Speaker 2 Very anonymous anymore. 00;06;35;26 - 00;06;38;17 Speaker 1 Anonymous that they could be anyone and you wouldn't even know. 00;06;38;17 - 00;07;07;00 Speaker 1 So when you think about just what do you wish? In general, adults understood better about your social media or the maybe the culture around social media use for teens? I think of all like the bad there is, there are a lot of positives that come from social media. I think it's a great source of communication. I think that if you trust your child enough, where they are going to be smaller and you educate them on the dangers of like what social media really can do. 00;07;07;01 - 00;07;22;00 Speaker 1 I think that it's not always a bad thing. I do also think that social media romanticizes a lot of negative things. So like, I think parents think of social media differently than what it is like in the aspect of like. 00;07;22;00 - 00;07;24;27 Speaker 1 Not just like body images that are being romanticized. Like there's. 00;07;24;27 - 00;07;26;01 Speaker 1 TikTok your algorithm. 00;07;26;01 - 00;07;27;13 Speaker 1 It's what you're consuming and. 00;07;27;13 - 00;07;30;27 Speaker 1 Tommy. I normally have pretty positive things on my for you page, but. 00;07;30;27 - 00;07;35;02 Speaker 1 Sometimes I'll just have a bad social media day and it just it just absolutely ruins my mood. 00;07;35;02 - 00;07;37;18 Speaker 1 I feel like parents are pretty aware of that. 00;07;37;18 - 00;07;41;03 Speaker 1 Tell me what a bad social media day is like. What does that mean? 00;07;41;03 - 00;07;43;25 Speaker 1 Okay, this is kind of off topic, but the other day I. 00;07;43;25 - 00;08;00;07 Speaker 1 Open TikTok. And I saw this really, really sad video of this little boy singing to his dad sister. And it just broke my heart. And so it's just like then like my whole mood's over. But like, that's not really a negative thing that social media is putting in my brain. That's just kind of a sad exposure. 00;08;00;07 - 00;08;06;04 Speaker 2 To content that affects your mood, maybe in a way that you weren't expecting from opening the app. Yeah. 00;08;06;04 - 00;08;17;08 Speaker 1 What do you think, Brogan? I think social media is like, such a diverse place. It's very it's got full of good things, full of not so good things, full of all the in between. I think it's. 00;08;17;08 - 00;08;18;05 Speaker 1 Very. 00;08;18;05 - 00;08;27;19 Speaker 1 Complicated. I think that it's hard being on social media. I think it's hard to understand even as a child. So I think as a parent it's probably even harder. Where do you. 00;08;27;19 - 00;08;34;13 Speaker 1 How do you help your child? How do you talk to your child about it? Because at the same time, I don't even really know what I'm doing on there half the time. 00;08;34;13 - 00;08;37;14 Speaker 1 I think like apps like Instagram and TikTok, they're very like. 00;08;37;14 - 00;08;43;00 Speaker 1 Meant for you in there like algorithm is point to you you're for you paid stuff like that. So I think it's. 00;08;43;00 - 00;08;47;23 Speaker 1 Some stuff, like videos that make me feel like either happy, make me feel sad, make me feel. 00;08;47;23 - 00;09;03;12 Speaker 1 Comparing myself to other people. And I think that's like one of the negatives. The social media is like, you see something and you get jealous, you get sad, you get upset. You're like, why don't I have that? Why can't I be like that? So I think it's just like, it's a hard place and it's like, you got to know it and not take it all too serious. 00;09;03;12 - 00;09;06;01 Speaker 1 But at the same time, when you're young, you take it all serious. 00;09;06;01 - 00;09;10;03 Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's hard as an adult, too. I don't think those are unique. 00;09;10;03 - 00;09;13;29 Speaker 1 Problems or concerns just for teens or young adults. 00;09;13;29 - 00;09;23;29 Speaker 1 So the district created some digital citizenship curriculum that was really intended to help kids learn about how to be safer online. 00;09;23;29 - 00;09;26;22 Speaker 1 You're both way past that age of 13 where you are. 00;09;26;22 - 00;09;50;08 Speaker 1 Legally allowed to have those accounts. So you have some time between when you started using social media and your social media use. Now, when you were first thinking about getting into accounts or having those accounts, what would have been helpful from like, a school standpoint, from either teachers you could talk to or maybe something different in curriculum that would have helped you navigate that better. 00;09;50;08 - 00;10;07;09 Speaker 1 Yeah. So I did not come here for elementary school, so I don't know about that part. Yeah, but what I can tell you is that Ben Franklin, during advisory, we would always go over stuff like social media use and what you should post. We shouldn't post. We should make a password. We should make public, which you shouldn't make private. 00;10;07;16 - 00;10;08;29 Speaker 1 And I think that did really help. 00;10;08;29 - 00;10;17;03 Speaker 1 So I think, like, we should really kind of, express the importance of learning stuff like that at a young age and helping your future self. 00;10;17;03 - 00;10;33;00 Speaker 1 Remember. And I think like sixth grade, I think I was still at McKinley and we were in the library and we were looking ourselves up on social media, looking our name up online and seeing if our social media platforms popped up. And I think and I remember my TikTok popped up, which I was not of age to have. 00;10;33;07 - 00;10;37;20 Speaker 1 Sorry mom, but I remember my eye popping up and it was kind of like. 00;10;37;20 - 00;10;42;25 Speaker 1 The lesson of like everything that you post online is going to be out there forever. And like, honestly. 00;10;42;25 - 00;10;44;00 Speaker 1 That should be. Really. 00;10;44;02 - 00;10;46;03 Speaker 1 Focused on stressed? Yes. 00;10;46;03 - 00;11;06;04 Speaker 1 I think people are still kind of figuring out all the social media platforms when we were growing up, and now that it's figured out, I think that students should really understand, like, honestly, like not to scare them, but the dangers of social media and the dangers of posting. Because when I was a kid, I was just I didn't I didn't really listen, but nobody ever really sat me down and was like, like, this is this is seriously an issue. 00;11;06;10 - 00;11;13;20 Speaker 2 Well, it's forever, right? Like an even. I think what is so difficult from a parent's aspect, from an educators aspect, is. 00;11;13;20 - 00;11;38;11 Speaker 1 When you have these apps like Snapchat, where things disappear right when you have the adult saying no, they really don't disappear, like those things are always going to be there. It's tougher, I think, kids to to process that like, no, no, it is, it is there. And you can look up your TikTok profile online. That's a good exercise for somebody who maybe is wanting to do something on their own or have have kids just kind of like, okay, let's see. 00;11;38;16 - 00;11;40;25 Speaker 1 Look up your name and see what we can find out there. 00;11;40;28 - 00;12;05;14 Speaker 2 And I think that's like some the stereotype around posting a story is, oh it's gone in 24 hours. It's it's gone. It's not like screenshots are available. It stays online forever. And I think that's hard to process when you're young because you're like, why would anyone screenshot it? Why would anyone show anyone else? But in reality, it's probably what's going to happen and it'll come back and you'll be reminded of it for forever. 00;12;05;14 - 00;12;06;23 Speaker 2 And it's digital for. 00;12;06;23 - 00;12;14;25 Speaker 1 I think like just kind of grasping that, not saying everything's a negative, like I had this horrible haircut and it comes back to haunt me. 00;12;14;25 - 00;12;16;16 Speaker 2 And like, I had terrible. 00;12;16;16 - 00;12;36;06 Speaker 1 Hair. Is it is that really a negative? No. And like, does that really affect me now. But like using that like as something that can really like something can really come back. It was a very unique look. She let me get it and I tried I know I blame her, I blame multiple times, multiple times. 00;12;36;09 - 00;12;40;13 Speaker 2 But we all we all go through the phases and that's that's nice to look back at sometimes. 00;12;40;13 - 00;12;41;10 Speaker 1 How does social. 00;12;41;10 - 00;12;42;18 Speaker 2 Media. 00;12;42;20 - 00;12;46;11 Speaker 1 Help you feel connected, or maybe even sometimes disconnected. 00;12;46;11 - 00;13;16;00 Speaker 2 Socially from your peers? I think I feel extremely connected just texting my friends. I think I tried to delete Snapchat for like a week, and I just felt so left out and not even like just texting, but beautiful stories on their private stories. And just like communicating with people all the time. I think like that connection is really a blessing, but also at the same time, like then it's when you're not on those stories or those friends aren't texting you. 00;13;16;03 - 00;13;23;02 Speaker 2 It hurts a lot more. And like, you take you take that to heart. And like personally, I've had a lot of struggles through social media with friends and. 00;13;23;02 - 00;13;29;22 Speaker 1 I think that it can be a positive place, but it can also be a very negative, hurtful and just kind of feeling excluded place. 00;13;29;22 - 00;13;54;01 Speaker 1 I think that on social media, it's so easy to connect with people and it's so easy to talk to every friend everywhere, no matter where they are, can be on vacation. You can be wherever you are. And I think that's a blessing. I think that's an amazing thing. But at the same time, there's the downsides to that and there's the the negatives, not so good things like like you said, like you see someone story that you're not on your son on his phone and they're posting stuff and you're like, well, why am I not on there? 00;13;54;01 - 00;14;12;05 Speaker 1 Why am I not included? There's group chats without you, there's people talking without you, and you can get one day 100 notifications and feel like the most popular person and feel like such an amazing person. And then the next day you get five and you're like, well, what was the difference from today to yesterday? And it's just it's. 00;14;12;05 - 00;14;19;04 Speaker 1 The very hard thing mentally to like, comprehend. And I think that that's something that's not talked about enough. 00;14;19;04 - 00;14;24;03 Speaker 1 Have you had any success at trying to set some boundaries around social media? 00;14;24;03 - 00;14;32;09 Speaker 1 I set screen time for myself. So growing up I always had screen time with my mom. I did figure out the codes multiple times. Yes you did. 00;14;32;09 - 00;14;35;03 Speaker 1 Getting a little bit older. I do have screen time. 00;14;35;03 - 00;14;50;02 Speaker 1 Limitations for myself, and I think that is beneficial. But also like the minute that screen time notification comes up and I still I still want to be on the social media platforms. I'll just ignore the limit right? So like yes, it does make me more aware. And I do think it's helped me, but at the same time, like. 00;14;50;02 - 00;14;52;16 Speaker 1 Let's dissolve like I'm going to. I'm still going to go on social media. 00;14;52;16 - 00;14;57;17 Speaker 2 I'd like to be at least giving you some kind of awareness of how much time you have for sure in there. 00;14;57;20 - 00;15;08;14 Speaker 3 Yeah. And I think for me, on the weekdays is like, I've really set hard limitations, especially, halfway through semester junior year, I was not doing so hard for semester grade wise. 00;15;08;14 - 00;15;22;17 Speaker 1 So I decided that I needed to cut back on my screen time. I need to focus on actually doing my schoolwork first. I also work 22 hours a week, so I need to get work done. I need to get schoolwork done. Then whatever time I have left, I can go on my social media. 00;15;22;17 - 00;15;33;07 Speaker 1 I just, I don't know, I think it's very hard to set limits in state limits, especially with how easy it is to just put in the code and you override the limits so. 00;15;33;08 - 00;15;38;23 Speaker 2 You're through it, or figure out your mother's code and get through it. One time we. 00;15;38;23 - 00;15;39;26 Speaker 1 I'm one of three. 00;15;39;26 - 00;16;02;05 Speaker 1 And we cleaned the phone screen off so that when she flicked the code, her fingerprints were there. When we. Yeah. So for parents listening, I just know, even when you try to put some boundaries in place for your kiddos, sometimes they can, figure those out. I think there was a second phone at 1.2 that was like a traveling phone in the friend trap. 00;16;02;05 - 00;16;20;05 Speaker 1 Phone trap? So yes. Like, and that was your fault. Oh, that was not real, but. Oh, right. Like one of you, I would take your phone away. And then there was this traveling phone that just would like. Yeah. So we're all doing the best that we can. 00;16;20;05 - 00;16;37;25 Speaker 1 It can be difficult, I think, to help sometimes if you notice that you're struggling, like there were definitely times I noticed you were struggling with social media, and it very much feels like it can be right on me to help you fix that. How, as parents, can we do a better job of helping you navigate that? 00;16;37;25 - 00;16;50;04 Speaker 1 Think understanding your kid, understand the situation. Just doing the best you can is all you can really do. I think being there to support your kid no matter what. Obviously punishments like just part of life, but like, you know, kind of come at it with support. 00;16;50;07 - 00;17;07;21 Speaker 1 So we've talked a little bit about like what it was like being younger. Right. And having those accounts. If you were able to talk to maybe those students that are coming up on that 13 age and thinking about having those social media accounts, what advice would you give directly to those students or kids? 00;17;07;23 - 00;17;20;27 Speaker 2 I think the biggest advice I would give right away is make their account private. Make it follow the request. Don't make it so everyone can see it. Everyone can view it. Anyone can follow a like comment and share it. Make it. 00;17;20;27 - 00;17;27;02 Speaker 1 For your friends. Make it a safe place. A safe place where anyone can be. But don't make it. 00;17;27;02 - 00;17;37;19 Speaker 1 Like we said earlier, everything stays online. So you got to be smart. You got to be safe. You got to be really understanding of consequences to actions, too. 00;17;37;22 - 00;17;55;16 Speaker 2 And like going off that, like the being like the having fun part, like it's like for me, it's like when I got on social media, I wanted to be like all the older girls on social media and like, I don't know, you go and you watch movies and shows and it's like these 25 year olds playing 14 year olds and very unrealistic expectations. 00;17;55;16 - 00;18;09;06 Speaker 2 So I just remember always wanting to grow up and grow up and grow up and like, even now, like I catch myself, like not living in the moment, trying to like, reach these goals that are and five, ten, 15 years for me. And I think like I'd have a conversation especially with. 00;18;09;06 - 00;18;19;14 Speaker 1 With a teenage girl. I can't really relate. Teenage boys, you know, but with a teenage girl just being like, have fun with your friends. Like have a fun account, post what you like. Be smart. 00;18;19;14 - 00;18;47;14 Speaker 1 Be a 13 year old. Don't try to reach these insane goals of these 20 year olds that are like living these unrealistic lives and like, I feel like just living in the moment and being realistic and having those realistic expectations. And I think that conversation needs to be had before even like stepping on social media, because there's this expectation are set from, like I said, movies and shows and things that these kids have already been exposed to and just it's just a part of life being exposed to that. 00;18;47;16 - 00;18;56;13 Speaker 1 So like, I just think having that conversation of like, this isn't realistic and like your face and your body and your actions are realistic right now. 00;18;56;13 - 00;19;06;05 Speaker 1 There are likely things that parents, teachers, other people in your, you know, adults in your lives that care about you are are worried about. 00;19;06;05 - 00;19;10;23 Speaker 1 And maybe we're not asking the right questions. What would those right questions be? 00;19;10;26 - 00;19;17;12 Speaker 2 Okay, I'm not sure what the right questions would be, but I say, like, if you're worried about your child or whoever. 00;19;17;12 - 00;19;25;09 Speaker 1 On social media. I think having like a sit down conversation, going through their accounts, looking through like what they're posting, what they're exposing, and instead of. 00;19;25;09 - 00;19;29;07 Speaker 1 Getting upset. Like if you see something that upsets you, like sitting down and having a conversation. 00;19;29;07 - 00;19;29;29 Speaker 1 Why does. 00;19;29;29 - 00;19;31;21 Speaker 1 Why does that upset you and why does that? 00;19;31;21 - 00;19;35;22 Speaker 1 Were you or make you, you know, nervous for your kid because. 00;19;35;22 - 00;19;46;08 Speaker 1 When you're young kid trying to figure out social media, it's difficult. And then when you sit down and your parents go to your phone and they get upset and they don't give you a reason why they're upset, it's even more confusing. So I think. 00;19;46;08 - 00;19;51;16 Speaker 1 Not even just questions, but just like seen on having a genuine conversation. Treating your kid. 00;19;51;16 - 00;19;52;20 Speaker 1 The age they are. 00;19;52;20 - 00;19;55;15 Speaker 1 I think that would be the best, the most beneficial. And obviously. 00;19;55;15 - 00;20;00;20 Speaker 1 You're not going to agree with your kid 100% of time. Yeah, me and my mom thought a lot about social media, but. 00;20;00;20 - 00;20;01;03 Unknown Looking back. 00;20;01;03 - 00;20;04;21 Speaker 1 As she was. Right. And you know, and like those conversations were good. 00;20;04;21 - 00;20;24;23 Speaker 1 Yeah, and I don't I don't necessarily think there is a right or wrong question a parent can ask their child. I think it's hard for parents as well, because they didn't grow up with social media, so they don't understand it. And kids these days, teenagers don't really understand it as much as well. So I think there's a learning curve that you're going through together. 00;20;24;26 - 00;20;29;07 Speaker 1 So I think when you're talking to your child about social media, I think you should. 00;20;29;07 - 00;20;33;11 Speaker 1 Coming out of a point of understanding. I'm here to help you. I'm not here to. 00;20;33;11 - 00;20;42;26 Speaker 1 Fight you. I'm here to understand. I'm here to help you. I'm here to make your presence online safe, number one, because that's what every parent wants. Absolutely. Their child safe. 00;20;42;26 - 00;20;45;24 Speaker 1 Parents want to be let in. They want to know things. 00;20;45;24 - 00;21;08;22 Speaker 1 I would agree. I think especially the Latin part. The minute you sit down and have a conversation with your kid and you get upset and you get angry and you take all these platforms away. I'm not saying that you shun it, but I'm saying that then, like, that kid is going to hide stuff. And as a kid who had a lot of stuff, there's always going to be a way to hide things and play stuff off and. 00;21;08;22 - 00;21;11;28 Speaker 1 I know people now who hide things from their parents. 00;21;11;28 - 00;21;12;27 Speaker 1 And to me. 00;21;12;27 - 00;21;23;22 Speaker 1 I think that is way worse of a relationship than just having an honest relationship and being truthful with each other, communicating with each other, understanding each other. 00;21;23;22 - 00;21;35;14 Speaker 1 Just give each other more. In defense of parents, we did have Myspace. Oh, yeah, so I like we're the OGs of social media. I'm sorry. I don't know what it is. 00;21;35;19 - 00;21;39;12 Speaker 2 It's basically like a platform where you could talk and call. 00;21;39;12 - 00;21;41;14 Speaker 1 Oh, nice. You guys can text. Nice. 00;21;41;14 - 00;21;54;07 Speaker 1 I just want to thank both of you so much for being willing to just be here and have a really open and honest conversation. I know this can be maybe kind of difficult to talk about right? Knowing that other people are going to hear what we're saying. 00;21;54;07 - 00;22;02;13 Speaker 1 Just really thankful for your willingness to share your experiences and give some advice both to parents, teachers, educators, and. 00;22;02;13 - 00;22;05;10 Speaker 1 Kids that are thinking about being on social media. 00;22;05;12 - 00;22;17;08 Speaker 2 Well, thank you for having us. And I do want to say, like anybody that's taking their time to listen to this, to understand their child better, like it is just so beneficial and just such a great parent for doing that, I think. 00;22;17;10 - 00;22;34;23 Speaker 3 And I also wanted to say thank you. And I wanted to say thanks for letting people hear what we have to say in helping parents better understand their children and social media, because I think that's a very important topic to be well-versed on, especially in 2025 when social media is such a big part of our lives. 00;22;40;01 - 00;22;59;14 Speaker 1 You've been listening to Navigating the Digital Playground, a podcast from the Stevens Point Area Public School District. Our mission is to prepare each student to be successful both in and beyond the classroom. To explore full episode transcripts, family resources, and upcoming events. Visit Pointe Schools dot net backslash digital playground. 00;22;59;14 - 00;23;20;03 Speaker 1 Thanks for listening and for partnering with us to help every student learn, connect, and thrive safely and responsibly. This podcast is meant to share ideas and resources to support families. It is not a substitute for professional advice. 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