What you can do
- Discuss when your child wants to use TikTok and when to put the phone away. Start with a typical school day or weekend.
- Open TikTok’s Family Pairing using its own help. Look together at the settings for screen time, content and contact.
- Show your child what your choices change and agree to check in later. Ask who they can turn to after an upsetting video or message.
Avoid
- Listen first, without blaming or shaming your child.
- Do not forward private messages, intimate images or explicit screenshots.
- No app can protect against everything. Do not promise that it can.
For parents
Make clear that your child can get help even if they have broken an agreement.
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- Make clear that your child can get help even if they have broken an agreement.
- Ask what happened without pushing for every detail.
- Help end contact if needed and find someone you can ask for advice.