Parents must 'take responsibility' for their children's social media usage

Headspace’s Head of Clinical Leadership Nicola Palfrey says parents must “take some responsibility” regarding children’s use of social media.

“It can be easy for us to think about it as a completely new context for parenting and it’s not,” Ms Palfrey told Sky News Australia.

“We’ve been putting tablets and screens in front of kids for a long time now and expecting, when it suits us, for them to take that and be entertained by their iPad for example when they’re quite little.

parents must 'take responsibility' for their children's social media usage

Parents must 'take responsibility' for their children's social media usage

“I think we also have to take some responsibility that sometimes we can be exposing kids to these behaviours and then get annoyed with them when they’re continuing them.”

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