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For a kid? Such as?
Friends.
My son has a Greenlight card. It's been fantastic for helping him understand allowance, savings, charity in a more modern age than when I used to get cash I put in an envelope with a table on the front. It's taught him about interest and he's able to see quick results (especially when I started his savings account at something crazy like a 500% interest rate to encourage him). As others have mentioned, cash is near u…
>He used to give me cash when he bought Robux etc but cash is also near useless for me. I find this amazing. I live in New York and use cash for the vast majority of my purchases.
My son has a Greenlight card. It's been fantastic for helping him understand allowance, savings, charity in a more modern age than when I used to get cash I put in an envelope with a table on the front. It's taught him about interest and he's able to see quick results (especially when I started his savings account at something crazy like a 500% interest rate to encourage him). As others have mentioned, cash is near u…
Yikes. What are you going to do when your child learns about compound interest?
The "Parents are untrustworthy and break promises" lesson sounds like a bad plan to me!
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You know, now that I think about it, I'm not sure where I land on this issue. On the one hand, kids not being able to get off their phone to the point it impacts their performance at school is worrying. On the other hand, school is kid prison, and I really can't begrudge any kid who, when having to listen to a teacher for hours on end, takes any opportunity to do something more interesting they find.
It's mostly social media (=bullying), games, or snapping/sharing creep shots of classmates, from what I've heard. To a substantial degree the phones are just amplifying what's already bad about school. Agreed about the entire enterprise of school, as it exists, kinda being horrible kid-prison to begin with, though.
I'm pretty sure there's a selection effect in what you heard (eg you only hear stuff about kids using phones was something goes wrong enough to be headline-worthy).
For instance, I'm no fan of social media, but I wouldn't say it boils down to bullying and nothing else.
What does a kid need a special debit card for? When they’re old enough to get a job they can just get a regular bank account.
How many kids do you know with a job? Now that a lot of society is cashless, children need a way to spend their pocket money even.
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The larger point is not to send your kid to that store if they only accept a debt card. They only exist if you keep going to those stores.
Do your children not have minds of their own about which store they want to go to?
It's more shocking to me that parents are giving their kids cards and making them use apps for allowance.
I didn’t have a smartphone but I could text. Around 14 I wrote a little Rails app that would receive transactions via SMS from Twilio. We never ended up using it but it was fun to write. Shortly after that I got a joint checking account with a debit card in my name.
Not surprised at all.
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And to add further, they don’t know they are being excluded from some more interactive imessage group chats or at the very least talked about or noticed They rationalize their choices with “I don't want to be around superficial people like that anyway” not realizing just how many people are judging and questioning their decision making process “oh god someone thats going to talk my ear off about all the control they…
But remember, poor Apple shouldn't be hit with an anti-trust lawsuit over this.
the culture itself created the rest of the consternation in favor of Apple. Apple can successfully lean on it being an unencrypted notification than an anti competitive practice. Even two iMessage users can randomly fail back to green bubbles and the SMS network, and it has nothing to do with competitors.
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I would be annoyed too over that. I do need my kids to have phone, cause that is how we coordinate normally and not having them would be pain in ass for me.
Basically all effective punishment a school might use, if humiliation and corporal punishment are off the table (obviously, they are), ends up inconveniencing the parents. The most a school can directly do to a kid that doesn't inconvenience parents is make them stay in a different room than usual during school hours (in-school detention). Most other options have been (and I'm not arguing they shouldn't have) elimina…
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What is "green bubbles" a reference to? I understand what you mean, I think, I've just not heard that phrase before. Also, totally agree.
It's a reference to the green background messages in iMessage, which indicate that the other person is not using iMessage.