Social Media Ban Punishments Won’t Fall on Children or Parents, Says Minister

Modern parents lack the benefit of generational advice when it comes to handling social media challenges with their children, New South Wales Premier Chris Minns has said. His comments come on the second day of a social media summit co-hosted alongside South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas, focusing on reducing youth access to social media amid a growing body of evidence showing its links to mental health concerns in young people. Minns said parents did not have generational knowledge to fall back on when working out how to deal with social media challenges. “The best thing you can do as a parent, and what’s been done for generations when you’re looking for advice or expertise about how to raise your own kids, is to ask your parents or your grandparents about what they did when you’re a pain in the bum,” he said on FIVEAA Radio....