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When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone

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Re: When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone

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Post by kalms »

Swalden123 wrote: post #5
newnewpdro wrote: post #4

Smart kids.

It’s a shame the Mother can’t see this

Did you really read the article? Or are you talking in more general terms?

The mother is full on accepting of her son and use it to question her own motives in life. As a parent, I found the read very refreshing.

Re: When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone

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Post by vigenutis »

I wonder if her children's reluctance to embrace smartphones is completely caused by the way she uses hers? If so, maybe we will see more children rejecting them as the 18-25 range become parents. I think many of the people I know in that range would do the same things that she was doing.

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Post by endymi0n »

For my parents, having their own car was freedom, as their parents didn‘t have them when they were young.

For me, the internet is the world I discovered for myself, first in the age of BBSes and an early WWW before any of FAANG were even born.

For kids, how better to make a difference than having none of the consumer devices that everyone including their parents carries around.

Kids need to make a difference, as we all did. It‘s in our genes and we better learn from them.

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Post by ajwin »

thiccly wrote: post #12
Swalden123 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a shame the Mother can’t see this

You must be joking, she wrote the article silly.

On the internet to promote herself with a photo of them at the end. I felt a strong sense of irony at the end of the story.

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Post by azangru »

I cannot imagine how it can be a good idea to reject the internet. Avoid social media all you want, but choosing not to have a search engine, dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps and so on at your fingertips is just bonkers. Also, smartphone is great at being a digital watch with alarm clock, a audiobook reader, a radio set, etc. You can rebel against the mindless social media generation to your heart's content and still benefit greatly from this piece of technology.

Re: When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone

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Post by rahoulb »

dr_dshiv wrote: post #13

There are $40 smart watches for kids that have a sim card and no location tracking. Perfect. They Dick Tracey when they want. We can let them play on the streets of Amsterdam and just call when it is time to come home.

My wife (who is a primary school teacher) was saying that a kid in her school was taking photos with her watch. She didn't even know watches could do that and it means they are going to have to rewrite school policies (currently phones are banned in school because of safeguarding/photos without consent)

Re: When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone

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Post by Karto »

azangru wrote: post #18

I cannot imagine how it can be a good idea to reject the internet. Avoid social media all you want, but choosing not to have a search engine, dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps and so on at your fingertips is just bonkers. Also, smartphone is great at being a digital watch with alarm clock, a audiobook reader, a radio set, etc. You can rebel against the mindless social media generation to your heart's content and stil…

Quietness. Slowness causing you to deliberately select what information you need enough to bother finding it.
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