This week, as school approaches, we take a look back at an early episode about the complicated decision whether to allow your children to use social media. If so, how much should they use it and which apps are appropriate?

If you’ve struggled with when, or if, you should allow your kids to get social media, you are in good company. Many, if not most, parents do. Raising Me host Adrienne Stein asks Dr. Jeffery Barkin about how to know when our kids are ready, how we should monitor it, along with both the positive and negative sides of social media.

About the guest:

Dr Jeffery Barkin is a psychiatrist in Maine. He is a Past President of the Maine Medical Association and the Maine Association of Psychiatric Physicians. In addition to practicing adult and forensic psychiatry, Dr. Barkin co-hosts A Healthy Conversation, a weekly award-winning radio show, on WGAN.

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