35: Sexy Social Media. Where Should Parents Draw the Line?

Ask Lisa: The Psychology of Raising Tweens & Teens

Dr. Lisa Damour/Reena Ninan

Mental Health, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.7 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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How do you talk to kids about social media postings that might cross a line? What's the best way to start a conversation with your sons and daughters about what's too sexy for public consumption? A parent writes to Lisa and Reena about the suggestive TikTok postings her daughter puts up. Lisa explains how to open up lines of communication and the guidance parents might give about posts that could be seen as provocative. Lisa also shares what she is seeing during the pandemic and details why kids post suggestive content at this age. Enter to win one of two copies being given away by the @asklisapodcast of Lisa's fabulous New York Times best-selling book Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls. 1. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and/or LinkedIn @asklisapodcast ⁠ 2. Tag a friend and leave a comment (on Instagram/Facebook/LinkedIn)⁠ 3. Enter as many times as you'd like⁠ 4. For U.S. residents only⁠ ⁠ (Give-away is not sponsored or endorsed by Instagram/Facebook/LinkedIn. It will close at 11:59 p.m. EST on 4/19/21. Winners will be chosen at random and will be notified within 24 hours of the end of the give-away. Books will be mailed to the winners.) Additional resources: https://www.drlisadamour.com/ Ask Lisa is produced by: Www.GoodTroubleProductions.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	This is Ask Lisa, a podcast to help people understand the psychology of parenting, now in the midst of a pandemic.
0:12.2	Psychologist Dr. Lisa DeMore, author of two New York Times best-selling parenting books, takes your questions.
0:19.7	And I'm co-host, Rina Ninan, a journalist and mom of two.
0:23.7	Some of what we talk about comes from raising children ourselves. Most of the time, I'll be getting
0:28.5	answers to your parenting questions. So send your questions to Ask Lisa at Dr.Lisademore.com.
0:36.4	Episode 35, sexy social media.
0:39.2	Where should I draw the line?
0:45.9	I got my first vaccine.
0:48.2	Yay!
0:49.2	I'm so glad.
0:50.7	I am so glad for you, Rina.
0:52.3	It is so emotional.
0:53.5	I'm so excited, and I want to go somewhere. I'm ready. I know. I know. I'm so glad for you, Rina. It is so emotional. I'm so excited and I want to go somewhere. I'm
0:56.2	ready. I know. I know. I actually, I often say to my husband, I wish we had a place we were going,
1:01.8	something to do. It's pretty, pretty boring still. I know. I know. I would love to head over to
1:06.7	be there somewhere in Europe. I know the COVID rates are pretty high at this point. Yeah. Oh, man.
1:11.4	We'll get there. We'll get there eventually. Looking forward to it. And on the subject of pent-up
1:15.8	energy that needs to be released, we got this letter from a mom talking about her daughter's
1:21.2	social media. And it says here, hello, I have a 14-year-old girl, 14 the summer, who during
1:26.8	quarantine, watched a lot of online
1:28.5	YouTube and TikTok and started trying out new clothing styles, dance moves, makeup. She now posed
1:34.4	TikTok where she's lip-syncing to suggestive lyrics, dancing and twerking and showing cleavage.
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