'My son is a different person on Reddit. It is not something that I am comfortable with or that I approve at all.'
My oldest is 13 and he is our trailblazer. Whether he wants to be or not, he is the guinea pig for everything from sleep training techniques to social networking, and every teeny tiny thing in between. He is a good kid. And rarely complains about hisRecently he asked if he could have a Reddit account. I was hesitant. I don’t allow, or Snapchat, or Facebook for my kids. They’re young and just don’t need to be messing with that kind of stuff.
I don’t know if my son knew it, I didn’t, but you can see a Redditor’s activity if you click on their name. And WOW was he an active Redditor. He was commenting like crazy — dozens of times a day, all over the place. That’s not the only thing that bothered me. It was the language he was using. There is no other explanation other than profane.
I was terrified to look at his search history. Thank God, there was nothing there of note. It was mostly Minecraft and memes, the exact things he had told us he was going to be using Reddit for. Then I got into his texts. I braced myself for more profanity, and there it was. He and his friends exchanging barbs about penises and grades. Yes, it’s normal teenage stuff. I get it. It’s been a few years, but I was a teenager.
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