Shawn French

I build solid, real relationships off social media to where a lot of times, these friendships that I create out of thin air from a social media app, I can trust more than people

in my own community that I've known for about 10 years.

So there is a beautiful side about that, but we're also, you know, I'm in my forties and you know, we can, we have better discernment, I guess.

The thing that scares me about the current landscape with these phones and I, and I see eight year olds on Tik TOK all the time.

Like I have friends that give their kids this smartphone and they're on Tik TOK.

I'm like, you honestly do not understand what you are opening up for your child.

Like right then and there, there's that pressure to be accepted.

The comparison, am I pretty?

Am I ugly?

Am I fat?

Am I skinny?

All these different things that these children are going through right now that we don't have any idea what this current generation is going through because we grew up on tech mobile, riding bikes.

And shooting hoops in the front yard and maybe playing tackle football with our buddies.

You know, like that's what I grew up on.

And then I would go to baseball.

But we didn't have everything we have here.

So for us, in order to save that development of their brain and that discernment, it's like, okay, we're not going to do this.

But I will say, I will say it's becoming challenging in certain ways.

So my oldest is in sixth grade.

He's in middle school.