In an essay for TODAY, Erin Napier, star of HGTV's 'Home Town,' shares more about how her own childhood and adolescence inspired her desire to keep her daughters off social media.
in their Mississippi town, is on a mission to provide space for young people and families who want to break from the norm and abstain from social media, at least until they're older. In an essay for TODAY, she shares more about how her own childhood and adolescence inspired herMusic was my thing in high school. I played guitar and sang every Thursday night at a coffee shop in downtown Laurel in Mississippi. It was a creative outlet, and there was no social media back then.
A lot of kids, especially girls, are vulnerable to criticism of the things that they enjoy, or are doing, or are making, or the way they look. They aren't equipped to deal with the emotional fallout of hundreds of people having an opinion about them, and of being aware of what that opinion is. I started to realize while I could post something and know exactly what I meant by it, I couldn't control what the person reading it thought I meant by it. Feeling like you're misunderstood is very frustrating, even as an adult, and that's when I realized social media was never real.
When Helen was first born, my husband, Ben, and I, along with three other families, made an informal agreement to support each other in keeping our kids off social media and smartphones at large. A lot of people are like,"You're so naive," for thinking we can keep our kids off of social media and away from cell phones. But it's not a forbidden fruit thing. We don't intend to ever treat it that way for our girls. What we intend to teach them is that you can live the most incredible life, and you can do and see and be anything in the world, if you are not tethered to something fake.
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