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It seems everybody is talking about Netflix’s Adolescence, a four-part series about a 13-year-old boy accused of murdering a schoolmate. The show has ignited conversations about being an adolescent boy today, about a crisis in masculinity that’s linked to social media instigators and digital loneliness and increasing online sex segregation.
But, as columnist Marsha Lederman wrote, it was also a hard watch for parents of teenage boys, as viewers got a glimpse of the dangers of online bullying and toxic masculinity.
On Thursday, April 3 at noon ET, child psychologist Dr. Jillian Roberts, Marsha Lederman and Globe television critic J. Kelly Nestruck answered reader questions about Adolescence, and how parents can talk to their kids about the show and the issues it depicts.
Did watching Adolescence make you uncomfortable? What issues or concerns has it raised for you about adolescents, social media and cellphone use? If your kids have watched it, what was their reaction? What conversations has the show opened up about masculinity? Read the answers now.
