Sadly this doesn’t work unless the entire community in your area also does the same. Because your kid will be the only one in their entire school without a phone and they will be constantly bullied, and socially ostricized.
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beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
If I wanted to raise superhumans, I’d simply not give them smartphones until they turned 18.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Or don’t send your kids to public school to get bullied and shot
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
It seems great at first, but lack of socialization is a huge problem. Don’t get me wrong, I hate public school, but even as someone who went to public school and even I still have problems with socialization. I can only imagine home schooling would be worse.
And do you even have time to curate their home-school learning materials? I mean I manage to learn a lot by myself from reading a lot of science, politics, history, and articles on various topics on the internet, but are most kids gonna be intetested in that? Or are they just gonna browse tiktok all day? (Since you’re gonna need to be at work and you can’t watch them all day)
The middle-ground would be for parents to create their own sort of private school, but then that’s gonna need a lot of funding, and its basically only viable for rich people (or at least “middle class” people), its not an option if you’re broke as fuck. Also, running your own “ghetto” school (for lack of a better word) is really gonna get the authorities on the radar, and you have a lot of legal liability issues if kids start fighting each other or get sick, especially if you cannot even afford to cover legal funds to defend your little “private school” organization.
You can even end up like this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing
rikudou@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Boomers haven’t had them for quite a bit longer. Wouldn’t say it helped much.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Boomers got lead instead.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
IDK, they seemed pretty focused until fox news came along.
Triasha@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Fox happened in the 90’s, boomers were fucking shit up as far back as Reagan.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
you mean like gen x and millennials are doing now?
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I used to sneak beers as a teen. Your kids will be sneaking Internet.
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
If you wanted to socially stunt them maybe. Please never do this.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 1 day ago
I know kids who's parents kept them away from computers growing up, where as I was allowed to play with computers and broke several by the age of 10.
Now I'm good with computers and have made a good career out of it, those kids who weren't allowed around computers aren't very computer literate, their parents definitely did them a big disservice.
Teach your kids a healthy ballance with new technology, but don't withhold it especially when their peers are all using it.
memfree@piefed.social 1 day ago
As an old fart who witnessed social gatherings for decades, it looks like social stunting comes from smartphones rather than their absence.
Triasha@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
When you were growing up there were places you could go to be social without phones. Those don’t exist anymore. You can’t go to the mall and meet strangers, that would be weird and creepy. If you turn 21, bars do not have young people in them, they are for older people.
There is nowhere gen z people can go to meet other gen z people except online.
I know there is an exception somewhere but for the vast majority of young people today that’s the truth.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
This is correct from your perspective only.
Young people are still social but they do it differently, if you are no not online you wouldn’t know their is a social gathering nor would you be invited. Not from malace but because all information about any event only exists online.
The person you consider your best friend needs someone to talk to. All their friends are available but not you. You become hard to bond with because your not where everyone else is in digital space.
Many events even require smartphone, even boring restaurants sometimes do with a QR code to see the menu/order.
I hate that kind of stuff but since a few years it has become clear that not having a smartphone is basically a social disability.
memfree@piefed.social 1 day ago
I understand that it is harder to bond to someone who isn't immediately digitally available. I understand that " kids these days! " do their social stuff online, but at the same time, they seem to have largely lost all skill at interacting with real humans of slight or no aquaintence.
It is easy to make sarcastic comments on your phone about how stupid this or that is. The sterotypical basement dweller can snark all day. What takes social skill is actively engaging with people you don't care about and finding common ground.
I'm sure you track some of this on facebook and such, but in real life: in which community groups do you participate? Do you know what your neighbors do and what they like beyond snapshots of events? That is: yeah, you saw that pic of their cookout, but did you know that he volunteer teaches English as a second language Tuesday and Thursday at the library? When was the last time you went into a neighbor's home (or had one visit yours) to share a cup of coffee and complain about that road that needs fixing and who to push about it?
sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 day ago
You’ll need to use a smartphone for most jobs nowadays, even just random dude in a supermarket.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t disagree, but wouldn’t it be better if society rejected that demand from capitalism and forced them to change because people aren’t interested in using an app to shop in a fucking grocery store?
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Maybe not a smartphone, I mean you can still use calls and texts to call out sick answer calls about job interviews.
But yeah you’re not wrong in that smartphone do make life a lot smoother. For example if you want to check your payroll and w2 info, that is gonna require an app on a smartphone, and some of them even requires an app for 2fa because of (supposedly) the increase in fraud, and banking and job applications, while you don’t need a smartphone for those, you’re still gonna need access to a computer, so for someone without a computer, might as well get a smartphone instead of a dumbphone + a computer.