Comment on Are you worried about your child’s screentime? Get a landline
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks agoUh ok mate thanks for your life story. Did computers even exist when you were in the 12th grade?
I fail to see how this is at all relevant to kids in the modern age being kept away from technology. Not having technology access today is completely different to 30 years ago.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I think their experience is very relevant. It illustrates perfectly that kids don’t need to be immersed in technology from a young age to become proficient at it later in life, if it’s beneficial to them.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Its anecdotal at best. Its like if someone was saying “we should give kids school lunch so they preform better at school” and then I replied “I didnt have school lunch and I got top my class” you’d think ok that changes nothing.
There is a lot of research to support the idea that adults are less likely to pick up a skill if they weren’t exposed to it as a kid. If you dont grow up working with technology to make things you’re less likely to go down that route as an adult or late teen. Thats a huge disadvantage in today’s age.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Eating lunch at school meets a basic human need and doesn’t really have a downside, though. It seems like there’s increasing reason to believe that cellphones, social media, online classes, etc actually hurt young people’s psychological and social development. I can understand why some parents would be wary of feeding into that.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
I can understand why parents woulr be wary giving their kids to much access to technology thats why I’m pushing back and saying that going full Luddite returning to a landline is not the answer.