My 9-Year-Old Is Obsessed With a Meaningless Metric. It Has the Power to Ruin Her Day.

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Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? My 9-year-old daughter has become obsessed with her social media accounts to the point where her entire sense of self-worth is tied to how many likes she gets for her posts. If she doesn’t get as many likes as she thinks she deserves, she is in an absolute black mood for the rest of the day.
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My 9-Year-Old Is Obsessed With a Meaningless Metric. It Has the Power to Ruin Her Day.
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