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Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time

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Re: Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time

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Post by wilsonnb2 »

derefr wrote: post #17
chris_mc wrote: post #5

> “It was just a pattern for me — to open my phone and I would have nowhere to go,” she said. “I was just looking at a screen. It was kind of weird, so I’m trying not to do that.” I found out I did the exact same thing when I deleted my Reddit account and set limits here on HN. I used to find myself unlocking my phone, looking at it, opening Google News to the same old articles, then locking it and doing something el…

Have you ever tried reading e-books? I've replaced most of my "on break" or "during commute" social-media time with plain reading of long-form content. I wouldn't describe myself as "being a slave to technology"—I just wanted something to entertain me when I had nothing to do. Social media was a bad way to fill that hole, in terms of the emotional costs. Books are a better way to fill that hole. Even if both just loo…

A huge part of the problem is that social media is built of bite size chunks that fit into small amounts of time much better than long form pieces.

Re: Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time

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Post by wink »

systemtest wrote: post #88
maccard wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's cheaper for my younger brother to be on my parents insurance until he's ~25, and _then_ start building a no claims bonus than it is to start building the NCB now. Paying €1200/year for 4 years and then taking out his own policy starting from fresh is cheaper than paying €3000+ for his own policy and it gradually decreasing over the next 4 years.

I guess it depends on the country and insurer. I insured my moped by myself at the age of 16. Paid €150 per year which was a lot of money for me. When I bought my first car at the age of 22 I only had to pay €300 per year for liability because my no-claims bonus was almost at the maximum amount.

Yeah it absolutely depends, I've seen a lot of calculation models so please don't take anything I wrote above as advice, was just trying to show a different side.

FWIW, for me it was: car insured with parents until I was like 23 I think, and those first 4-5 years were cheaper by A LOT. And then I could still claim my "no accident/damages in 5 years" fee reduction, although maybe not as much as I could've gotten. But money was a bit tight, so it wasn't really a question of "will this save me something in 10 years" more like "I prefer to have a car (first own, cheap one)" over "nope, no car".

Re: Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time

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Post by Angostura »

Schwolop wrote: post #53
Angostura wrote: post #36

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You can't play consoles on the bus, in the street, at the table, on the toilet, in class, in the playground, at the library, in the cafe etc.

You haven't seen Nintendo's latest offering then, have you?

How's instagram on the switch?

Re: Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time

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Post by chris_mc »

icebraining wrote: post #67
speg wrote: post #47

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I can’t wait to set limit for Reddit. I got rid of Facebook and Twitter last year and it’s so much better. Heck, why don’t I just delete it right now…

Then there's HN...

HN has decent articles, and not many of them, so going down the HN rabbit hole is more positive experience for most people as compared to Reddit and you don't have the massive size of Reddit that can keep you scrolling for hours.

Re: Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time

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Post by ddingus »

bilbo0s wrote: post #24
ddingus wrote: post #23

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I have a ton and agree with him.

Obviously I don't have a dog in the race of how other people raise their own kids, so I'm a little hesitant to wade in to you guys' discussion. That said, I mean: "...If my parents said they were limiting my internet I would've laughed in their face..." ??? If I had witnessed an exchange between parents and their child where the child "...laughed in their face...", I'm certain I would not have characterize whatever p…

Other comment here correctly clarifies point of agreement.

Re: Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time

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Post by ddingus »

thermodynthrway wrote: post #28
bilbo0s wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obviously I don't have a dog in the race of how other people raise their own kids, so I'm a little hesitant to wade in to you guys' discussion. That said, I mean: "...If my parents said they were limiting my internet I would've laughed in their face..." ??? If I had witnessed an exchange between parents and their child where the child "...laughed in their face...", I'm certain I would not have characterize whatever p…

It would have rediculous for my parents to suggest it. They trusted me to drive around pretty much anywhere and hold a job without getting in much trouble. How much more dangerous could the internet be than driving through a sketchy area. Their trust made me far more responsible than I would have been if they tried to treat me like a child when I was in my mid-late teens. I knew if I screwed up it was on me and would…

Indeed.

Secondly, lowest common denominator often creates difficult scenarios.

What I was capable of, at say age 14, was not the norm.

Fortunately, I lived in a time and place where that was accepted and there were few issues.

I once spent a few months writing assembly language. I heard get outside a few times, but that was it.

Later, spent another one fixing an old car, to be my first.

Then, out alone in the deep woods with a friend for a few days.

It was like that growing up. A wide range of experiences. Some easy, others not so easy. Danger was present. One paid attention, or faced it.

So pay attention. Rough, but valuable.

When I parented, I faced similar. Ran it about the same way. Some of my kids could handle it. Others could not, or did later.

The one who really could, a lor like me in that, currently travels the world.

Good.

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