EP:14 On this episode of THRIVE Like a Parent podcast Dr. B is going to talk to you about judgment and cyber bullies and how that affects us as HUMANS and how that affects our children and the concerns that she has.
Social media has become a very influential part of the world we live in today. It especially affects our children and their particular generation.
There is so much hate and cruelty that Dr. B herself has experienced in the last few years as she slowly began to share her story. This is very concerning ESPECIALLY for our children. The world they are growing up in is NOT the world that we grew up in. We didn't have likes, dms, comments that could traumatically impact the rest of our lives.
There is no doubt that your child will one day want a social media page.
Therefore it's okay to have boundaries with that for your children because we don't know what our children do on their phones behind the closed doors of their bedrooms.
The only solution Dr. B sees in supporting our children through this, and making changes and shifts, is to support our children first and learning how to do that on a sensory level and supporting their mental health. Making sure that our connections with our children are strong.
If we help our children understand how to connect emotionally with others, the hate and the ripping apart of others and the judgment will slow down.
Focus on that, the rest will fade away and pan itself out.
Join Dr. B as she talks through her own experiences with cyberbullying and judgement through social media.