by Alec Muffett
Like: how do they usually communicate remotely with their kids?
Quote:
‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood …
More than 4,000 parents have joined a group committed to barring young children from having smartphones
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/17/thousands-join-uk-parents-calling-for-smartphone-free-childhood
The goal is to change the norm, Fernyhough said, so that when children come to the end of primary school, the class “bands together and says, ‘Let’s all delay until at least 14.’ That means all the kids from your primary school go on to secondary school with a critical mass of peers who are doing the same thing”, reducing peer pressure.
Nothing like using peer pressure to try to stop peer pressure! That’ll send a message. Kids will never figure that out. Not!
“We don’t want our kids to turn up in secondary school as the only one [without a smartphone],” said Fernyhough. “That’s a nightmare and no one will do that to their child. But if 20%, 30%, even 50% of kids are turning up with parents making that decision, they are in a much better position.
Hogwarts!
All it takes is just ONE other kid to have something, then all of his/her peers can whine to their parents “I need xyz! So-And-So has one! You don’t love me!”
It’s the incessant whining that’s so disagreeable. It doesn’t really matter what it’s about. And a small percentage of kids will invent their peers having xyz, even if they don’t.
But I agree I would caution parents 100% about putting a mobile computer in their child’s hands versus a far-more-simpleton device that can just receive and make POTs calls.
The main issue I think parents have is, the telcos keep location data to themselves, but with a so-called smart phone you can see a device on a map where the phone is located. Definitely a sense of comfort to parents.
Dear Parents,
Time to learn how to use those parental controls which vendors make available.
Thank you!
On a related note funny how they decide to listen to the parents but not the kids on this one
And during the whole DEA age verification for porn sites the nspcc released a “study” (which turned out to be an online survey where there was nothing to say the parents were hovering over there child) that a certain percentage (don’t remember how much) said they were worried they were addicted to porn. It’s almost as if people only listen to the kids if it suits something they want, if kids don’t give the answer they want then there obviously in don’t understand this thing they’ve lived with there whole lives unlike us adults who have just learnt about it but definitely understand it better.
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