Chip and Joanna Gaines may be social media stars, but most of their children aren't following them online. The former HGTV stars and Magnolia Market founders have a strict rule about kids and social media, which they revealed when they visited on May 29 to talk about their new Magnolia Network series “Fixer Upper: The Lakehouse.” “Our house rule is you get social media the summer before you go to college .
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so 18,” said Joanna Gaines, 46, who , ranging in age from a kindergartener to a college student, with her husband Chip, 49. "But it's a challenge," Chip Gaines interjected. "You can tell these kids want it before that.
It's not like it's this agreed place to where we've all decided roughly 18 and they're like, 'Oh, thank goodness. I didn't want it to begin with.'" "They wanted it at 12, 13, 14," he added.
Joanna Gaines said the couple's four minor children have been "kind of quiet" about wanting to join social media during the past year. "I think they just know the heart behind it, which is hard, I think because all their other friends have it," she said. Still, the former "Fixer Upper" star says her kids have plenty of perks other kids would envy.
"I feel like for us it's kind of one of those things where we can say, 'You have these other things that are really great. Our life is a little different and we care about this specific thing,'" she said. The couple, who will celebrate their 21st wedding anniversary on May 31, also talked about how much they've learned.
