https://www.axios.com/2024/03/22/kids-childhood-smartphone-ban-social-media
What they're saying: Haidt offers four controversial suggestions:
No smartphones for kids before high school give them only flip phones in middle school.
No social media before age 16.
Make schools phone-free, by putting devices in phone lockers or Yondr pouches.
Give kids far more free play and independence, including more and better recess.
If a parent wants to raise their kid that way, that's their business, but it shouldn't be the lawAs an uncle of several kids who have been raised by iPads, I think something absolutely needs to be done about it.
Do people not know that "a modest proposal" is a statement that's supposed to only be used for purposefully bad ideas?So far nothing in this topic wouldn't fit in with that line of reasoning.
It's kind of surprising to me that kids in any grade are allowed to have their phones in class.
The kids won't need smartphones anyway once we eat themThe phones or the kids?
Kids watch some real dumb ass garbage on Youtube, for real though.You mean like the YouTube Poops we watched as kids?
It's always some dumbass shit like Morgz or like some weirdo making a video like "DON'T CALL MCDONALDS LATE AT 3AM GRIMACE SHAKE HUGGY WUGGY SUSSY OHIO FINAL BOSS".
Absolute mind poison, they don't stand a chance.
Do people not know that "a modest proposal" is a statement that's supposed to only be used for purposefully bad ideas?That's what I was wondering.
As an uncle of several kids who have been raised by iPads, I think something absolutely needs to be done about it.
You mean like the YouTube Poops we watched as kids?
You mean like the YouTube Poops we watched as kids?Wtf is a youtube poop? Seriously, the worst thing i remember watching on YouTube was =3. I actively avoided all the cringe shit back then.
Boomer nonsense
I agree in full. My 9 year old badgers me often about getting a phone, especially when she sees other kids with them.Fight the good fight! My wife and I are on the same page as well. My oldest son hasn't asked for a phone yet. Most kids his age still don't have one
Sorry kid, your mom and I are on the same page on this one, lol.
my mother didn't let me get a phone until I was either 13, or joined extra-curricular activities that required me to be at school after-hours. I feel like this is a completely reasonable rule, and I'll be doing the same with my own children.
No tablets or phones/social media until 14 (high school), or phone with limited access if doing extra-curricular activities/sports.
Love it or hate it technology is here to stay and shielding people from it doesn't help anything thats just the same old conservative mindset that new things are scary and bad. People will adapt to the changing world as we have always done.
I would believe this if kids weren't somehow getting dumber with computers. Always thought my generation would be the last to have to explain how a computer works to another generation. But not to a younger generation.
This probably has less to do with people getting "dumber" and more to do with people just not needing to deal with same shit we had to back in the day.
Like there's an entire generation of people who are helpless with torrents because if they wanted to watch/listen to something they could just use youtube. Back in the day if you wanted to watch anime you needed to figure some shit out >_>
And phones have obfuscated the very concept of directories since everything you can get off the store just goes to the same giant unsorted app list.
Ok Jack Thompson
I would believe this if kids weren't somehow getting dumber with computers. Always thought my generation would be the last to have to explain how a computer works to another generation. But not to a younger generation.Seriously, I use to help seniors with PC skills and thought, "well this field won't last". it's incredibly sad how the newer gens have seemingly fumbled the bag in this regard. Fortunately, Youtube will never die.
No they weren't, they've done more good than harm. Fucking Tik Tok has been such an instrumental tool for sharing information that the government wants to get rid of it.I hear this, and wanna believe it, but it feels like such propaganda.