The Talk We Need to Have About Social Media With Our Teens

My daughter sat at our island last Saturday night with her best friend. They were snapping pictures of each other, using every Snapchat filter available, and posting them to their “stories.”

When I heard her friend say, “Hey! I don’t like that picture of me!”
I looked over my daughter’s shoulder and asked her if she had posted the picture anyway.

She told me she had, and they were both laughing and her friend assured me it really was OK and she didn’t really care, but I cared. A lot.

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