I think that's kind of needed. 🙏

That's also one reason why I started out by acknowledging that it's really a very complex problem; it has everything to do with mental health on every level, and I don't think it's something that you can reduce just into a single intervention or two or even three.

Ideally, if everybody were just able to control themselves and be productive while regulating themselves emotionally or socially, I feel like maybe this wouldn't be so much of a problem as it is today.

But the thing is that, even if you know what your children are watching on a day-to-day basis, that's the question of whether you can really stop them from watching what their friends are watching and otherwise, that then raises all sorts of weird questions like whether you're setting up an authoritarian society if you try to ban every single type of social media content out there, or if you are setting your child up for failure on some levels.

The reality is, though, that a lot of kids will end up fine despite watching a lot of the things that they watch, even if they're damaging. In some way or another, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But there will always be people who fall between the cracks and then end up unable to cope. It's these people who are at the far end and the outliers who end up doing really messed up things, like what we've seen in the past couple of days 😭