Viva Brighton Issue #58 December 2017

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COULD YOU CARE FOR THIS CHILD? Charity number 216250/SC037605
FAMILY ........................................... Brighton5 Peer support for screen teens Daisy Cresswell and her sister Tayler are the founders of social media company Liberty842. Now Daisy (pictured left) tells us how they’re cutting back on big name clients to focus on helping teenagers and parents understand each other better. We’ve worked in social media for years, managing accounts for celebrities like Alan Carr and creating online narratives for shows including Holby City and The Archers. Our experience has been really positive but I was increasingly concerned about the way my teenage daughters used social media. My youngest, who’s 13, seems to spend all day behind her bedroom door on Snapchat and Instagram. When she goes somewhere without wifi, she’ll ask her older sister to keep up with her Snapchat ‘streaks’ [where users are rewarded for keeping conversations going as long as possible]. I never knew exactly what she was up to but I was reading about how one in four girls aged 14 have depression fuelled by social media. I thought, I can’t look back with good conscience and say I didn’t do anything while this is the world I work in. I spoke to my 16-year-old about it, she said something interesting - how the hierarchy in our house changed when I wasn’t there and instead of squabbling, she almost became ‘mum’ and the two of them talked to each other. I came up with the idea of Brighton5, an initiative made by teenagers for teenagers as a peer support system. We have a group of girls aged 16 to 18 who discuss mental health, body image, pocket money, responsibilities, school and college. They will go on a mission to try and sort this shit out and have fun doing it. It’s TV-based and we hope to start filming in the Easter holidays. It turned out that most of the girls were as worried about social media as their parents. One said, ‘If we had a world without social media I wouldn’t miss it’. That was astonishing. But it goes back to the point that if you can’t talk to your child, you’ll never know that’s how they really feel. The second strand of the project is a parent podcast – exploring their fears about teenage behaviour. I went to look at the Mass Observation archive at The Keep and even in the 80s and 90s diarists were writing things like ‘teenagers are trouble’. Yet they were teenagers once. I thought it would be funny to look at the way we were as teens and compare that to today. Are our kids really any worse than we were? Brighton5 is a really big deal for Tayler and me. We’ve culled 70% of our client base and I’ve been working on Brighton5 nonstop since July. Yet I’ve never been so determined about our mission – to make (good) trouble! As told to Nione Meakin Daisy and Tayler are keen to hear from parents who would like to take part in the podcast. Visit brighton5.com for details ....87....
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