Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood
Fudoshin@feddit.uk 8 months agoPeer pressure. Kids at school get the new greatest phone and tell their parents. Parents feel compelled to get it for their kids.
Not just pressure to get a fancy phone but that most of the socializing happens on social media now. Even if they sit in the same class, it’s a snapchat message.
If they don’t have access to it, they’re social outcasts by default.
It’s fucking crazy…
I think if the kids want to bully, they’d just find a lonely and defenseless target and invent an excuse. If you are a potential target, having an expensive phone wouldn’t save you anyway.
You’d be surprised! I was bullied throughout school for my shoes (fake Elllese). But one day I came in wearing a Fila jumper for non-school uniform day and everyone was my best fucking friend. Kids are evil.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s still on the parents. My little lad is 15 and never had his own phone until his tweens. Amusingly, he was older than me when I got my first phone back in the 90s.
He never got bullied for not having a phone.
ChexMax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
He may not have been bullied, but he may have missed out on bonding and closeness that his peers enjoyed. There was a study that showed life is way better for kids if they don’t have a phone, but only if their peers also don’t have phones
hulemy@ani.social 8 months ago
This fact alone makes me conflicted about this. I don’t want my kids to walk around having phones from an early age, but I know first hand that being excluded as a kid is not a enjoyable experience. And kids are vicious creatures to each other too.
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
All I never had was a Gameboy I didn’t get an actual phone until I was in high school.
It had polyphonic ringtones and an IR blaster, it was the business.
yamanii@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Maybe he just didn’t tell you.
ultra@feddit.ro 8 months ago
lol people calling 15-year-olds “little lads” makes me feel like a baby
(i’m 13 :/)