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How parents navigate teaching digital citizenship without overprotection

My teenager wants to join political discussions on social media but I see how toxic those spaces are and we keep fighting about whether I'm protecting them or silencing them and I don't know how to prepare them for democratic participation in digital spaces.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to shield young people from harm conflicts with the need to prepare them for the messy realities of democratic engagement.

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