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Jennifer Garner Social Media · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for American mama. Dear mama, did you let your
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  kids get on social media? Well, let's ask our American mama. Mama,
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  Mama, she says, and joining us now our American mama, Terry
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  Netterville. There's a There was an interview out Jennifer Garner. Of course I've
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  been a fan of her since she was on Alias. I thought she didn't
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  that was a great TV show, and then of course several other things after
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  that. She used to be married to Ben Affleck. They have some kids
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  together. She says she never let her kids be on social media. And
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  there's some people go, Wow, what a mean mom you are, and
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  you're your kids, You've made your kids amish, And then there's some other
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  people who are all like, man, I wish I didn't. There you
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  go, girl, that's that's that's good parenting right there. Where do you
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  fall on their spectrum? Well, I'm with her. You know. It's
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  so funny because when I was growing up, my mom would not allow us
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  to watch TV like other kids. We only we were allowed to watch one
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  hour of TV a day, and since we had to get up to our
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  piano lessons in the morning, I would choose to watch Tom and Jerry for
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  thirty minutes and then something else yet to night. And there were shows that
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  she would not let us watch. She wouldn't let us watch Three's Company,
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  she wouldn't let us watch, for whatever reason, the Love Boat. But
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  she wouldn't let us watch soap operas. And as we got older, I
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  would say, go, everybody else gets to watch soap operas rise at their
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  houses. I'd see the soap operas in the summer, and she wouldn't let
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  us. And I would say, why don't you let us watch TV?
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  Why don't you let us watch soap operas? And I will never forget her
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  response. She said, first of all, I'm responsible for everything that you
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  put into your head, whether it's what you read. I'm responsible to check
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  to see what books you're reading, what shows you're watching, blah blah blah.
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  She said. The problem with the soap operas, Terry, is you
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  get so invested in the storyline that you start rooting for the wrong thing.
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  Your moral compass is off because you start you're invested in the storyline and the
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  way that they portray these couples that you start rooting for the affair. And
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  she was right, because I was sneakily watching it at my friend's house and
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  I was reading for the affair. But when it comes to social media,
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  Jennifer, Jennifer Garner is spot on about this. She said, actually,
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  and I thought this was an actual brilliant response. She said, I say
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  to my kids, show me the articles that proved that social media is good
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  for teenagers, and then we'll have the conversation. Find scientific evidence that matches
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  what I have that says that it's not good for teenagers, and then we'll
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  chat about it. So when she said that, Hodah and Savannah Guthrie,
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  that's who was interviewing her, Yes, and they asked her. They were
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  like, well, how do you, God, how do you do that?
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  Because I just tell them no. You know, a lot of parents
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  are like, wait, how do you keep your kids from getting social media?
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  It was so simple, you just say no to your children. So
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  my children were older, but in all fairness, I don't think that social
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  media was really a thing until they were a little bit older, like maybe
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  the latter part of summer's middle school years. And still my boys never really
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  got into social media, and summer barely they were so busy outside they were
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  doing their sports or with their friends. They really they still don't. They're
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  still not into it as much as a lot of kids. But that was
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  actually part of the philosophy my parents had, was to keep Robert and Nice
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  so busy that we couldn't get in trouble. Yeah. Yes, we'd have
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  piano and we'd have school, and we'd have track or we'd have soccer whatever.
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  By the time we got home after doing homework, we were too tired
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  to go cause trouble. That was part of the plan. Yes, when
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  I knew that we were talking about this, I was talking to Summer on
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  the phone and I asked her about it, and I said, what are
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  your what are your thoughts? Okays as a young she's a young twenty,
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  She said, I can see both sides, because there is that social aspect
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  that people get to know is out of you that they don't know, and
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  so of course some people put the false stuff out there. And she said,
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  but at the same time, if you're too young, when you receive
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  it your eyes, you're you're more prone to seeing things that you probably should
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  not see. It's probably unhealthy for you. But then she said, but
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  if you're having a bad day, rough day. If you're on the right
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  apps, you can have a good verse, a Bible verse that comes in
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  just when you need it, a good quote. And so you and I
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  were talking earlier about there's an app that maybe only parents can approve it,
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  like the kid can only have it. Actually, this is a new law
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  actually out of Arkansas. So Sarah Huckabee Sanders love her right she signs as
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  the new governor of Arkansas. She just signed a new bill into law that
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  makes it to where if any kid in the state of Arkansas is going to
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  get on social media, they have to have parental consent. I love it.
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  So the social media and the onus falls on the social media companies.
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  It falls onto met it falls onto Google, it falls onto alphabet and all
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  those companies TikTok. They have to make sure that the parents of the kids
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  have approved the kids getting on the app or they are criminally liable. Wow,
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  this is a pretty strong law. And I think they have another one
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  in Utah, similar type of thing to where the state is saying no,
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  we're going to give the parents the opportunity to have a say here. I
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  love this. I think this is a healthy thing for our kids, right,
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  And I don't know, although I've been shocked before, I don't know
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  a parent that would not agree with this bill. Like what parent would not
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  think? This was such a great idea because you're able to know what app
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  or what social media outlet your child is on and you can kind of keep
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  up with that. When we were going up, we growing up, we
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  couldn't go into R rated movies or our parents in theory. You know,
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  some kids would find ways to sneak around, but but that was that's why
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  the rating system was put into place, was to try and protect kids.
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  We don't have a rating systems for social media like we do for movies,
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  like we do for video games and Wendy, where do y'all stand on this?
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  Bailey never wanted to be on social media. That was never an aspect.
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  Yeah, yeah, Julia has done it a little bit, but we
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  know what she's on and we said, if you're going to be on there,
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  you have to make us your friend so we can see what you're doing.
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