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🚫 No Social Media for Under 16s? Great. Now what?

Australia’s social media ban for under-16s is bold and, in principle, smart.

If everyone under 16 is off social, we kill the FOMO factor dead. That’s a win.

But here’s the part no one’s talking about:

“Take the phone away” isn’t a full plan.
“Here’s what we’re giving them instead” is.

[[Because let’s be honest: ‘I’m bored’ is coming. And that whine wears parents down.
When parental bandwidth shrinks, so does workplace productivity.
This isn’t just a family issue—it’s an economic one.]]

So what are we offering instead?

📉 Sport? Not for every kid.
📚 Reading? A tough sell for many.
🧠 Online courses? Good luck getting an 11-year-old to self-enrol.
🎮 More screen time, just not social? That’s like switching from cigarettes to cigars.
🌳 Nature? Beautiful—but kids need a guide.
👴 Grandparents? Bingo. Underused, undervalued, and uniquely positioned.

We can’t expect exhausted parents to do it all.
But there’s a generation that’s still got gas in the tank.

That’s why I started BestGrandad.com—to help grandparents step up and fill the gap.
Not with lectures. With presence. With play. With purpose.

{{Got any grandads in your life you’d like to press gang into service—for your kids and your sanity?}}

💬 Let’s hear it: What do you think we should be offering teens instead of TikTok?
(And tag a grandparent who still has a few good tricks up their sleeve.)