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Speaker 2: Now, we were just talking to one of Australia's most
Speaker 2: trusted parenting experts. His name's doctor Coulson. He's on Parental Guidance,
Speaker 2: the new TV show Channel Night. Oh my god, it's
Speaker 2: very brilliant and if you're a parent who's just fumbling
Speaker 2: your way through trying to figure out the right way
Speaker 2: to parent, as we all are, it is a truly
Speaker 2: brilliant show. But we got talking about social media and
Speaker 2: whether it's okay to have your kids on social media
Speaker 2: or not. Because there is one family who is on
Speaker 2: the show at the moment and they have a nine
Speaker 2: year old who has their own social media account. They
Speaker 2: have like five hundred thousand followers, and they're also making
Speaker 2: money as a nine year old off the social media account.
Speaker 2: I mean, my kids, they feature on my social media
Speaker 2: from time to time. But I think that there's a
Speaker 2: really big difference between making money from your children on
Speaker 2: social media and just sharing kind of like the highlight
Speaker 2: reel of what's happening in your life. Because if you're
Speaker 2: a mummy blogger and that's your one and only job
Speaker 2: is to be a mummy blogger and to talk about
Speaker 2: the experience of parenting, and that's how you make all
Speaker 2: your money. I think the big issue with that type
Speaker 2: of social media is that then it makes it really
Speaker 2: hard to say no when jobs come in. So instead
Speaker 2: of being able to have a good litmus for the
Speaker 2: types of things that you share about your kids, if
Speaker 2: all your income is tied up on social media and
Speaker 2: you don't have any other ways of making an income,
Speaker 2: it makes it really challenging to say I don't want
Speaker 2: to do that job or I don't want to put
Speaker 2: my kid in that campaign, because ultimately you're saying no
Speaker 2: to money.
Speaker 3: Do the kids get the money? Are you putting it
Speaker 3: in an account for the kids? Like where's it going?
Speaker 3: Are the kids earning the money for the parents and
Speaker 3: the parents are just using it themselves. I think there's
Speaker 3: a whole other layer to it.
Speaker 2: Well also means right that you need to share the
Speaker 2: more and more personal, the more vulnerable, the more challenging
Speaker 2: parts of parenting. That you share, the bigger your community
Speaker 2: gets online because the more mums relate to it, the
Speaker 2: more they want to talk about it, and that that's
Speaker 2: how you kind of grow your following. But the thing
Speaker 2: I think is really worrying about that is that if
Speaker 2: you're sharing the really vulnerable bits about your parenting experience,
Speaker 2: you're also sharing the really vulnerable bits about your kids
Speaker 2: as well, and your kids can't opt into that. And
Speaker 2: that's where I think it's a bit of a gray
Speaker 2: area where this sharenting thing can go too far.
Speaker 1: It's all well and good to say kids are on
Speaker 1: social media and then assume that kids are the only
Speaker 1: people engaging with that content, but it's not true. There
Speaker 1: are creeps on the internet that look at its content.
Speaker 2: So what about their privacy exactly?
Speaker 1: I think social media overall for children would have an
Speaker 1: overarchingly negative effect.
Speaker 4: Oh it does.
Speaker 3: It's proven, and it's so addictive.
Speaker 2: That's the big thing, more so than just having a
Speaker 2: negative impact. It's so addictive.
Speaker 1: We've got Emma on thirteen one or six five high. Emma,
Speaker 1: you've got your kids. What is your stance on this?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 4: I am hav an eleven year old daughter, and I
Speaker 4: just feel like, she doesn't need social media right now.
Speaker 4: She has the rest of her life to be on
Speaker 4: Instagram and TikTok and Facebook. So why does she need
Speaker 4: to spend the years that I would probably say some
Speaker 4: of the most important years about finding out who she
Speaker 4: is as a person and developing her own identity. Why
Speaker 4: should she be spending those years comparing herself to others?
Speaker 2: Is she wanting it? Has she been trying to ask
Speaker 2: for it or pressure you for it so far?
Speaker 4: Look, probably twelve months ago she did because she's one
Speaker 4: of the only ones in her friendship group without it.
Speaker 4: So we let her have kids Messenger because that's something
Speaker 4: we can monitor, and she's not being exposed to, you know,
Speaker 4: the highlight reels on Instagram and TikTok. But after we
Speaker 4: had that conversation with her and said, we don't think
Speaker 4: that she's emotionally mature enough to be exposed to some
Speaker 4: of the content. She understands and she knows that her
Speaker 4: time will come and we will let her have it
Speaker 4: one day, but it's just not right now.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3: It scares the bejeevas out of me. Sometimes I look
Speaker 3: online and I'm like, I don't think I have the
Speaker 3: emotional capacity to deal with it, let alone bring in
Speaker 3: and keith in and then having it. I actually genuinely
Speaker 3: it plays on my mind.
Speaker 2: I think you need to have very good boundaries as
Speaker 2: a parent with you You have to be okay with
Speaker 2: saying no to your children, and that's something that a
Speaker 2: lot of parents struggle with, especially when you want to
Speaker 2: be friends with your kids. Having those boundaries and saying
Speaker 2: no can be really, really hard. And also as an adult,
Speaker 2: as a parent, you have to be social media literate.
Speaker 2: You've got to understand what's happening on social media to
Speaker 2: be able to help educate your kids and protect them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go live in the real world, Get outside kids.
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Speaker 5: Next?
Speaker 2: Everyone, boys, what's on the show?
Speaker 5: Gooday, guys, massive show. We're going to be joined by
Speaker 5: the new Sunrise host Huge Shoes to fill filling in
Speaker 5: the Great David Kosia's shoes. Yes it is Matt Srvington
Speaker 5: plus will is having a mental health day today, so
Speaker 5: a very very special guest is filling in for him,
Speaker 5: and I'll tell you who that is when our show begins,
Speaker 5: right up next.
Speaker 3: Sounds good, guys, can't wait, see you all tomorrow.
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