Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 week agoThey are parenting. This is what parenting looks like. You don’t just give them everything they want. Sure, you can also choose to give them a phone, and you can choose to lock it down. You can also choose to give them nothing. Parenting is about making those decisions for your child. It isn’t about listening to random people tell you stupid things online who act like they’re more knowledgeable about your situation.
ysjet@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Parenting is about making the best choices you can for your children, not simply making choices for your children. And I never said to give them everything they want.
The fact is, the dude is intentionally trying to socially isolate their kids to ‘protect them’ which is textbook helicopter/overcontrolling parent and deeply fucks kids up for life. S/He literally outright says they want their kids to cleanly break from ‘friendship drama’ and the literal outside world. That’s… words cannot describe how concerning that sounds.