My thoughts on the internet, the treatment of kids and teens, and irl stuff
Tldr; if you want teens/kids to not be in adult spaces, help make it so that teens and kids have there own spaces both online and irl.
Firstly, I wish the internet had some safe places for kids and that parents monitored their own children. It'd put less stress on most creators on the internet and it'd be safer for kids anyway.
And I wish there were teen oriented places too, so that we dont have to constantly have to choose between little kid stuff and adult stuff. Because that genuinely seems like the only options no matter on the internet or irl...
There needs to be more places in person where people can just be there. Able to chill, chat, or just have a place to go for fun instead of being on the internet. And it needs to be accessible to everyone. And there need to be places specified for kids, teens, and adults too.
There also, in my opinion, need to be less stigmatism when it comes to friends being a whole range of ages. Its not a bad thing to be friends with someone older/younger than you, but there also needs to be set boundaries too yknow? I like having friends older than me, and I also have friends that are younger than me too. I care about all my friends!! If they have a problem I wanna be able to help, and I also want to help them enforce their own boundaries too!!
I think there should be mandatory classes on parenting when people decide to have kids, and therapy should also be included imo. Because that could prevent so many problems i think !! Like being able to work on yourself before having a kid is important, and I feel like if my parents had taken classes AND got therapy for their issues, me and my brother probably would have had a much better childhood.
Also I brought up how parents need to monitor their kids internet more because as much as I love my dad, he didn't really keep a close eye on what stuff I saw when I was in elementary and early middle school. And since I didn't know how to talk about the things I saw, I ended up internalizing a lot of things and didn't know how to talk about any of it because I was afraid of getting in trouble.
And when I bring uo the teen spaces thing, its because a lot of things I'm into are much more adult. And a lot of adult fans dont like teens being there (for example, The Freak Circus, The Magnus Archives, SVSSS, and much more), which is both understandable but also really annoying at the same time... cause like, I understand not wanting teens there because its not necessarily for them, but its also annoying because of how limited our options are in general :/ cause for teens its either 'little kid' stuff or 'adult stuff' nowadays. At least that's what I keep seeing.
Idk maybe I'll add more maybe I won't. Thank you for reading, and please dont send hate to ANYONE. Oki?
Edit: wanted to add, if you dont want teens/kids interacting with adult things then help make things that are age appropriate more accessible to them. And do research on such things too, so that there are actual places for them to go instead of adult ones.
Parents, learn how to rall to your kids so they feel like they can go to you when faced with things they see/feel. I'm an extremely secretive person, even if it doesnt seem like it, because when I was younger I was too afraid of getting in trouble to actually talk to my parents about the things I've seen/heard. I'm lucky to have a therapist now, and that I have safe adults irl that I can talk to now, but it doesnt change the past.
