You haven’t screwed up your kids by letting them use social media. An expert has tips for what to do

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Parents tell me all the time that they’ve screwed up their kids because they allowed them to use smartphones and social media too young.

Not true, says Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr, associate professor and program director of digital humanities at University College London and author of “ Smartphone Nation : Building Digital Boundaries When Offline Isn’t an Option.”

Her new book, published Tuesday, is full of tips on how to manage our kids’ screen time — and our own — in healthy ways.

One big takeaway is about algorithms: We don’t have to let the formulas social networks use to decide what to show us determine what we consum