Why not just give them feature phones? Things that you can communicate with but which don’t have social media on them? If you need to access a website, just do it at home on a laptop or something. It’s important for kids to be able to experience being a kid before we thrust a digital life on them
Kids are online because interaction in person has become increasingly difficult. School should probably only take up half or less of the current amount of time it does, of course kids are going to be doomscrolling while waiting out the clock to go home like we do at work.
We can give them dumb phones, if we also close off most roads so no cars are allowed on them, and stop assigning homework, and stop treating school like a day care prison, and allow loitering.
All the things that enabled kids to be kids instead of miniature adults before we started blaming phones for these problems.
That would be great, for children to foster a sense of freedom and independence in their society.
But I don’t think we are ready for having the real conversations
anachrohack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why not?
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not possible to participate in society without a phone
It’s not a good thing to stunt the development of people we expect to depend on phones one day.
It’s good to ban them during class because they’re a distraction. But human beings need phones to live in this world.
Phones =/= bad, that’s lazy boomer logic
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Also it’s being done explicitly because of Gaza. they’ve admitted it
anachrohack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why not just give them feature phones? Things that you can communicate with but which don’t have social media on them? If you need to access a website, just do it at home on a laptop or something. It’s important for kids to be able to experience being a kid before we thrust a digital life on them
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kids are online because interaction in person has become increasingly difficult. School should probably only take up half or less of the current amount of time it does, of course kids are going to be doomscrolling while waiting out the clock to go home like we do at work.
We can give them dumb phones, if we also close off most roads so no cars are allowed on them, and stop assigning homework, and stop treating school like a day care prison, and allow loitering.
All the things that enabled kids to be kids instead of miniature adults before we started blaming phones for these problems.
That would be great, for children to foster a sense of freedom and independence in their society.
But I don’t think we are ready for having the real conversations
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Screens aren’t the problem. It’s how we tend to use them for the most part.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Big corporate assholes have ruined internet communities but we can easily take back control, and we are right here right now actually