Abby Brody Profile picture
Digital parenting expert. Precision medicine advocate. Cancer mom. Author, speaker, founder of the N=1 Movement. Fierce protector of childhood.
Oct 30 16 tweets 5 min read
Every parent has the same nightmare:

Your kid stumbles onto something they should NOT see online.

And you realize you have no idea how to protect them in a world that didn't exist when you were growing up.

I spent 6 months figuring it out... Here's what actually works 🧵 Image
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Here's what I tried first:

• Monitoring apps (destroyed trust)
• Screen time limits (they found loopholes)
• Parental controls (they worked around them)
• "Just talk to them" (they nodded and kept secrets)

None of it addressed the real problem. Image