Should I let my child have a Facebook account?

In this post, I examine what we did as a family when confronted with the question,“Should I let my child have a Facebook account?

“When my daughter turned thirteen, she became legal to sign up for her own Facebook account. At the time my wife and I decided she wasn’t ready. Iknew I had to start the transition through the four stages of fatherhood with her and move from Commander to Coach on the issue of Facebook.

A short time after her fourteenth birthday, we decided to let her sign up and begi...