Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood

echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My neighborhood has the same problem. There’s absolutely nothing for the teens to do. But all they do is complain in the forums about how the teens are wandering around causing trouble. They’re on the playground, they’re biking on the sidewalks, they’re playing chicken with the cars. Yeah, they’re f****** bored. The last thing you want in your neighborhood is a bunch of bored teenagers.

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The last thing you want in your neighborhood is a bunch of bored teenagers.

    But what about angry mothers? They are scarier.

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• spez_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Kids go outside and get run over by monster trucks

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• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Kids stood around and stared at their feet before swings were invented, I imagine.

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  • Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think hoops and sticks were big for a while

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    • wavebeam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “we’re children! we’re children! we’re children!”

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      • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “Pay no attention to Wimp Lo, we purposely trained him wrong… as a joke.”

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  • 31337@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think many worked. On the farm, in mines, in factories. Farmers would intentionally have many children just for extra labor. School hours and breaks are, in part, the way they are to let children work on the farm.

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• EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We do have new playgrounds, but the problem is that they’re very sanitized and only really suitable for preschoolers. Tweens usually just wander around without any exact place to go.

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Even back when I was 9 and playground near my home was replaced with plastic shit for toddlers I knew it was plastic shit for toddlers. On the other side there was stuff for training though. Still nothing for 10-30.

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• gapbetweenus@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  but there’s literally nothing for them to do.

  You just hang out and do fun and stupid shit, it’s nice to have special place for it but a construction site and under the bridge is good enough. Problem is modern parents are extremely anxious.

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  • bignate31@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was with you until the “construction site and under the bridge” bit. It definitely takes a bit of imagination, but I’m not sure not wanting your kids to play on a site which requires the use of hard hats classifies as being “anxious”

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Alternative would be garages roofs, which can be more dangerous.

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  • Misconduct@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Under the bridge is where the junkies hang out and you’re a shit patent if you want your kids messing around construction sites lmao

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  • ultra@feddit.ro ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    what fun and stupid shit?

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    • gapbetweenus@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Like play games (like war or something), roam around, make fires, have “gangs”, play other pretend stuff (basically role playing but without any real rules ) - ask your parents and grandparents what they were up to when they were kids.

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      • ultra@feddit.ro ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        make fires?!?

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      • Misconduct@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        1. This is a privilege a lot of city kids don’t have
        2. No to fires lmao wtf
        3. They only did that stuff because there was literally nothing else to do. Not because it was more fun.

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      • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        like war

        Let’s don’t.

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• mellowheat@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That sounds like an American problem. We in many countries in Europe don’t have that problem, but our kids still waste their time on smartphones.

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