Do your children have smartphones?
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Do your children have smartphones?
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Almost a quarter of 5-7 year old do
My kids have a tablet and play some games on it. Phones I will avoid for as long as possible.
From what I've heard, most get them before they start secondary school.
Almost a quarter of 5-7 year old do
My kids have a tablet and play some games on it. Phones I will avoid for as long as possible.
From what I've heard, most get them before they start secondary school.
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Re: Do your children have smartphones?
Mine are too old now but, when they were at that age, smartphones were in their infancy. Personally, I think they are a curse on younger children.
I'd support a ban on all primary-school-age children being allowed to use them. If parents want to be able to call or text their kids then just get them an old fashioned basic mobile.
I'd support a ban on all primary-school-age children being allowed to use them. If parents want to be able to call or text their kids then just get them an old fashioned basic mobile.
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Re: Do your children have smartphones?
My daughter has a smartphone, couldn't really stop her seeing as she is 33 next month
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Re: Do your children have smartphones?
Exactly, if the justification is 'need to be in contact with kids' then a cheap dumbphone will do.Dunners wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:25 am Mine are too old now but, when they were at that age, smartphones were in their infancy. Personally, I think they are a curse on younger children.
I'd support a ban on all primary-school-age children being allowed to use them. If parents want to be able to call or text their kids then just get them an old fashioned basic mobile.
I think what its really about Peer pressure and sh*tty apps, games, camera and social media.
I dont see any answer to it except try and get your kids interested in other things and curb youyr own usage- "monkey see, monkey do".
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Re: Do your children have smartphones?
The answer has to be from a health angle.Long slender neck wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:43 amExactly, if the justification is 'need to be in contact with kids' then a cheap dumbphone will do.Dunners wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:25 am Mine are too old now but, when they were at that age, smartphones were in their infancy. Personally, I think they are a curse on younger children.
I'd support a ban on all primary-school-age children being allowed to use them. If parents want to be able to call or text their kids then just get them an old fashioned basic mobile.
I think what its really about Peer pressure and sh*tty apps, games, camera and social media.
I dont see any answer to it except try and get your kids interested in other things and curb youyr own usage- "monkey see, monkey do".
Social media access can affect anyone's mental health, but for it to be inflicted on children so young is cruel and damaging. Kids can go through enough peer pressure and bullying when they're at school but, thanks to smartphones, they don't even get to escape it when they're at home. And many of these apps are designed to tap into the brain's dopamine response and manipulate the user's behaviour. There's a reason why so many of these tech-billionaires don't let their own children use them.
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Re: Do your children have smartphones?
It's the network effect - exactly the same reason why so many adults are on Twitter/Facebook/Insta/LOFC message boards etc. If you're not on, you feel like you're missing out.
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Re: Do your children have smartphones?
Yep to all of this.Dunners wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:50 amThe answer has to be from a health angle.Long slender neck wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:43 amExactly, if the justification is 'need to be in contact with kids' then a cheap dumbphone will do.Dunners wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:25 am Mine are too old now but, when they were at that age, smartphones were in their infancy. Personally, I think they are a curse on younger children.
I'd support a ban on all primary-school-age children being allowed to use them. If parents want to be able to call or text their kids then just get them an old fashioned basic mobile.
I think what its really about Peer pressure and sh*tty apps, games, camera and social media.
I dont see any answer to it except try and get your kids interested in other things and curb youyr own usage- "monkey see, monkey do".
Social media access can affect anyone's mental health, but for it to be inflicted on children so young is cruel and damaging. Kids can go through enough peer pressure and bullying when they're at school but, thanks to smartphones, they don't even get to escape it when they're at home. And many of these apps are designed to tap into the brain's dopamine response and manipulate the user's behaviour. There's a reason why so many of these tech-billionaires don't let their own children use them.
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Re: Do your children have smartphones?
Agree. And then, when they get older, they can use it as a burner phone.
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Re: Do your children have smartphones?
How many more have tablets of some sort? I reckon that number is higher still. Phones or tablets they are all the same. No kid uses a phone to make a call these days.
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Re: Do your children have smartphones?
Parental controls on, on the tablet. It'd be reckless not to for multiple reasons, one being every app is designed to part you with your cash.
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