*Rosario Dawson won’t let her 15-year-old daughter have a cellphone because she believes it’s bad for her mental health, Page Six reports.
“I think it’s really critically important as the adult in these kids’ lives to make sure they’re not going down dark alleys without some kind of information and help … and to get likes according to little posts you’ve made and then thinking that that’s what your value is can be quite dangerous,” the 39-year-old activist said during a panel discussion moderated by Laverne Cox at the Tribeca TV Festival on Saturday.
“I think this is a critical time for kids to be developing themselves.”
She added, “They can present themselves online as opposed to develop themselves online. That’s a really different thing. We didn’t grow up looking in the mirror all the time. We just didn’t. We didn’t look at ourselves all day long and this is what these kids are doing.”
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Dawson, who adopted her daughter nearly three years ago, also discussed the responsibility she has in making sure her child uses social media responsibly.
“We are humans. We are not robots. We learn three-dimensionally and it’s important for us to develop in a certain kind of way and not constantly be looking at a screen,” she said. “It really is our responsibility to not be on our phones all the time, to not be lazy and pass over our iPads to our kids instead of talk to them, you know, to really kind of instill that relationship so that they understand that they can have a relationship with themselves that’s healthy that then they can share with people, not that it can be so easily manipulated.”
In related news, Dawson celebrated her 39th birthday by going nude!
The “Top Five” actress took to Instagram to show off the goods in a video, adding, “Happy birthday suit to me… 39 & feeling’ fine…” — grinning as she covered her breasts.
She shared another snap of her taking a selfie — with pink roses covering her vajayjay.
“Reflecting on not letting gravity bring me down, she says.
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