This app is ruining her. She's scrolling for hours, staying up until midnight, her grades are slipping. I tried taking the phone away but she just gets it from her friends or uses the computer. I blocked the app on her device but she found a workaround I don't even understand. How do parents actually handle this without becoming the bad guy? Feel like I'm losing her to this thing.
Have you tried having an actual conversation with her about why she's doing this? Sometimes they're stressed or anxious and TikTok is how they cope. Not saying that makes it okay but understanding it might help.
The midnight scrolling is the real issue. Grades slipping is just the symptom. You need to get control of the phone at night, even if it means conflict. She's 13, not 23.
This is the nightmare scenario right here. TikTok is designed by people whose literal job is to keep her scrolling forever. You might need to take the phone away entirely for a bit, as brutal as that sounds.
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I feel this in my bones. Started with monitoring, then had to go to phone confiscation at 9pm. She hated me for a month. Now her grades are back up and she admits she sleeps better. Stick with it.