Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And they’ll just learn they can’t trust you. So instead of coming to you when they have a problem, they’ll go to someone else, probably online. That sounds way worse than them failing and coming to you for help.

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  • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, I’m just going to do it as a dad joke, like set their background as my face so they learn to lock their device.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lol, ok that would be funny. But if it’s completely under your control, that novelty would wear off quickly and they’d quickly stop trusting you.

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      • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Changes text alert to fart noise

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