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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 sneeze-slayer »

Very interesting article. Anecdotally, I know several of my friends who have downgraded their phones from various smartphones to a simple flip phone or even no phone at all.

One of them introduced me to the Light Phone (https://www.thelightphone.com/) which seems like it is in a similar vein, even if it costs more than a 10 year old flip phone.

I wonder if this trend away from the "always-on" status quo will continue in the future.

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Post by outime »

This looks like a smart kid from the description given. It's possible that he spent a good time reading recent literature about the drawbacks and decided not to join the masses. Or he just thought twice before following everyone. Either way it's always refreshing to find very young people doing different stuff by themselves as it's specially tough not to follow the trends during that age.

I also noticed that there's something different compared to when we were teens which we often forget and it's that there are devices (smartphones) which are used as extreme surveillance tools by some parents. It'd not be unreasonable to think that this only reason may make the devices much more unattractive to them.

Edit: verb typo.

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Post by endymi0n »

hdfbdtbcdg wrote: post #3

This mother seems very disrespectful of her son... Her children are not her chattel to do with as she sees fit they are human beings with thoughts and feelings of their own that need to be respected.

If you read closer, you‘ll notice a lot of stylistic (self-)irony and exaggeration between the lines. The last paragraphs clearly give away that she‘s very much respecting their kids.

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Post by thiccly »

hdfbdtbcdg wrote: post #3

This mother seems very disrespectful of her son... Her children are not her chattel to do with as she sees fit they are human beings with thoughts and feelings of their own that need to be respected.

I don't get that at all. She seems like a caring mother. Of course she is going to show them the things she knows. We are only human.
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