This week's essay is about what the algorithm is doing to your child's worldview. This episode goes somewhere the essay couldn't.
Read this week’s essay:
In this episode:
I share the real reason I gave my eldest a phone at 12, and why the decision I made for one child became the decision I had to make for all of them.
I talk honestly about what happened when my son was introduced to a figure promoting toxic masculinity, and why the fact that this person had allegedly reverted to Islam made the conversation so much harder.
And I walk you through what I’ve learned about staying in the conversation with your child even when what they’re saying genuinely frightens you.
This episode is for the Muslim parent who gave their child a phone earlier than they meant to, who has watched something shift in their child and couldn't name what it was at first, and who needs to hear that the goal isn't to have all the answers. It's to keep the door open. You're doing better than you think.
You’re doing better than you think.
With du’a,
Gulnaz, Halal Parenting.
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This episode is the companion to this week’s free essay, You Taught Them Everything. Then The Algorithm Arrived.
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