“Ugh, P. Diddy is such a creep,” my 11-year-old daughter said one evening as we sat down to dinner as a family.

My heart sank. Federal authorities had just raided his house, and the items they found suggested activities I hoped went over my daughter’s head.

“Oh, what have you heard about that?” I asked, trying not to reveal more than she already knew – likely from social media or her friends.

Over the past five years of global crises, I’ve learned to approach her exposure to mature topics with curiosity, followed by an age-appropriate explanation and invitation to ask questions.

Today, her access to the news through a range of voices, credible or not, researched or hot takes, abounds across social media.

In 2022, “nearly half of U.S. teens say they are online ‘almost constantly,’ a si

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