I'm A Therapist. I Don't Think Banning Social Media For Kids Is The Only Answer

This generation of parents have gone above and beyond to make childhood safer: using location-tracking apps, thinking carefully about sleepovers, knowing who their children are with and where they are going.

Risk in the physical world is now managed with unprecedented care.

Yet at the same time, many children are being given unrestricted access to a digital world that is largely unregulated, commercially driven, and developmentally mismatched to their needs.

As a child and adolescent psychotherapist...