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School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study

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Post by dbbk »

KaiserPro wrote: post #673
tgv wrote: post #624

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> because …, there is no longer any culture of letting kids go out and socialise Are you frakking kidding me? We can bring that back. That’s no reason to allow social media + mobile phones to poison society and youth.

I was a freerange when I was a kid. from about the age of 6 I was left in the garden/scrubland out the back, to be feral with about 4-12 other kids that lived on houses that backed onto the same scrubland. My wife is and was horrified by this. She was shuttled to other kids houses, and never allowed to go off on their own until deep into her teens. Objectively kids are much much safer now, however they are not allowe…

I don't have kids yet but I would certainly want them to be free-range. I guess now we have tech like Find My, it should give parents more peace of mind?

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madjam002 wrote: post #513

I find all of these bans quite interesting because when I was at school we would be figuring out how to circumvent the web filters and would be building apps to hide the games we had open on Miniclip when a teacher walked past. I think I kind of owe my software development career to these early days as that is what inspired me. We didn’t have smartphones when I was at school and I guess things weren’t as optimised to…

Flash games in Excel files was the way

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graemep wrote: post #332
arrowsmith wrote: post #282

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This was the policy at my school ~20 years ago. “Smartphones” didn’t exist, but mobile phones were ubiquitous and every kid owned one. But they weren’t allowed in the classroom, and if you were found to have one in the classroom (even if it was switched off in your pocket), it would immediately be confiscated and you wouldn’t get it back until at least the next day. Why would any school not have this policy? What pos…

Confiscation until the next day could cause all sorts of problems. For example my daughter needs a smartphone app for bus tickets. It would be a lot more expensive to buy a single ticket to get home and I suppose (especially with younger kids) its going to be difficult to ensure they have the money to get home - or the phone might be their main means of payment. People are dependent on smartphones to live day to day,…

Next day is excessive, end of the day is punishment enough

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Post by gerdesj »

WWLink wrote: post #696
mattlondon wrote: post #197

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An A road is typically a high-speed high-throughput road. Stopping to wait for someone to slowly cross can be dangerous. So you are stationary there and then some comes around the bend at 60mph not expecting a stopped car and wham. Not saying cars should have priority, but there you go

Yea, going by the picture that road is VERY incorrectly setup, then! There should be a pedestrian bridge for that kinda road. o_O

It is pretty awful. I have to turn right out of that weird ramp to return home. My mental rule of thumb is to only start the manoeuvre if there are no cars on the up hill lane - they are leaving a roundabout and also crossing over an unmarked pedestrian crossing. Lots of distractions without having to worry about a car appearing from the left.

Ironically enough, one of the school transport systems used to run from here and during the covid lock downs, quite a lot of Police transport used to run in and out of there too.

Now I've really thought about it I need to start whining at whomever looks after the A37 around there. The worst bit is actually people crossing at the edge of Fiveways roundabout.

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Post by e-clinton »

These studies simply aren’t nuanced enough for me. I want to give my 6 year old a phone that can do one thing only: call me, my wife or 911. No browser or any other app. Is that bad? Is the issue when they can communicate with friends? Is it social media? Email? The browser?

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Post by LoganDark »

Aeolun wrote: post #322
LoganDark wrote: post #153

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> I'm curious to know what you accomplished for several hours without network connectivity in general. Making your bed, organizing your room, taking a shower / getting a haircut, doing laundry, whatever. You know, the stuff people tend to get behind on.

People get behind on taking a shower? Amongst that list it seems the only one you can’t skip out on. Unless you start putting on dirty laundry. That’s probably worse.

Without going into too much detail... ADHD exists.
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