Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast.

I'm your host Sammy, and today I'm speaking just to parents on helping your teen navigate social media.

Hey, parents, this episode is just for you.

I recently did a free webinar on helping your team navigate social media, and I thought

this information would be so good for the podcast listeners, and so I wanted to share it here

on the podcast if you didn't have a chance to attend the webinar last week. I realize as a team coach that social media is a struggle

in many homes with teens,

and so I really want to help parents and their teens

when it comes to social media.

I also realize that social media isn't going anywhere anytime soon. It's here to stay. And so educating

parents and teens is so important because social media can be used for so many good things

if we use it in the right way. Now, if you are thinking of letting your teen

start using social media, then there are definitely some resources that I think you should

read before you allow your teen to begin social media. Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok,

they all have downloadable parent guides that you can find online.

And I will actually put these in the show notes for you so that you can access them.

In these guides, it walks you through the settings in each app that are helpful to know so that you can keep your teens safe on social and set limits and privacy.

And so those downloadable guides are mainly to help parents and teens stay safe on social media.

But there's more here in play than just keeping your teens safe on social.

The data that we are seeing is showing us that the more time teens spend on social media and the more social media accounts they have, the more

susceptible they are and have higher rates of anxiety and depression. Social media and a developing teen brain

are a perfect environment for anxiety and depression to just really blossom. And that's really

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