Devorah Heitner

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 128b: Digital Media and Technology Expert Devorah Heitner on Helping Kids Be Screenwise · 3 Oct 2025 podcast

I would just really wanna be sure I knew what was going on.

So that's where I always talk about mentoring over monitoring, but

I would say with a kid with special needs, especially if you know, you use the term differently wired, but especially if

They seem like they're more vulnerable than a typical kid.

Or if they're more um trusting maybe, if they've if they have a history of maybe like having a lot of trust with people, sometimes inappropriately, then I would say some monitoring might be appropriate.

And that's something I would disclose to them.

I wouldn't

go into covertly monitoring kids.

There are very few cases where I feel like covertly monitoring makes sense.

But I think letting your child know, hey, I have access to your communication and I'm not here to mess with, you know, what you're doing.

And I'm not here to not let you make friends online.

But it's important that someone else is able to look at some of this in case there's ever a situation that worries us.

And that's how I would frame it.

And I obviously I would

I would nuance that discussion a little differently depending on the age of the child and how much

How in-depth those online relationships are.

If your kids just playing Minecraft or Roblox with other kids, you know, on a public server, I would just go with a very basic safety talk.

if they're getting into more complex relationships or they're following someone on YouTube and commenting a lot on their channel and it's getting more personal, that's where I would

you know, really wanna be clear that they're staying safe in terms of their privacy and their um and their hearts, you know, you don't want

your kid to lose the that trust in the world because of someone trying to scam them or abuse them in some way.

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