Yeah none of those kids should have cell phones. They should be about old enough to drive before they get one even.
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K1nsey6@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That sounds like a parental problem
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 months ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yup. I have kids (three under 10), and the only time my kids use my phone is when I’m literally there with them, letting them pick a video (usually Pat and Mat, Bert and Ernie, or similar). It’s not every day, and never more than 30 min, usually like 15-20 min, and we take turns picking.
I’m not letting my kids have their own phone until I trust them with one, and that doesn’t seem to be happening anytime soon with how many of our other rules they break.
JustZ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can type in coherent sentences so it’s no surprise your kids don’t fall into the reported finding.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That’s a depressingly low bar…
spez_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Our schools have banned phones. They need to have the right to destroy phones
scottywh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s probably iPads but still…
Buttons@programming.dev 2 months ago
Yeah, parents are getting ruined by social media algorithms too.
Our government seems to be moving towards an “we only care about the children, but everyone, including adults, upload your government papers” approach.
Y’all got any of those protections for adults? I remember reading regulations that companies couldn’t show children advertisements. Can I have some of that regulation too?
I just can’t stop being cynical that there is little focus on homeless or underpaid adults, or other adult issues, but the one problem we’re focused on just so happens to include everyone giving up anonymity on the Internet.
We do need to help kids with social media, but there’s a lot of other challenges they will soon face as adults that were ignoring.
slumberlust@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are there any examples of ‘for the kids’ legislation that isn’t just something like backdoor encryption masquerading as protecting the young?
JustZ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Uhh, yes, in fact I’d say most. There’s entire systems of childhood health legislation, education, labor, you name it. This is an availability bias showing through. Think about it for five minutes and I bet you can come up with a dozen examples.
vimdiesel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think you mean “encryption with backdoors”
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Children copy their parents.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Children can’t do that if you’re a responsible parent that keeps an eye on what their child is doing. Y’know, the bare minimum of parenting.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine not realizing that people have to work for a living…
TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 2 months ago
if you’re a responsible parent that keeps an eye on what their child is doing.
Unfortunately you can’t run a society based on how people should behave. That’s the entire reason we have a legal system and the means to implement safeguards for our population.
JustZ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We can’t run a society on the things on which we run society!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That’s sort of true, but “rules for thee and not for me” just kicks the can down the road. They’re going to copy you, so it’s really important to set a good example, at least when your kids can see you.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not “rules for thee and not for me,” unless you consider that true for things like drinking alcohol. It’s protecting children from something they are not cognitively developed enough to be dealing with.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 months ago
With some things yes. But not all.
JustZ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Childless young people downvoting this, perhaps not able to admit they’re just like mom or dad?
For most of us I’m sorry but it’s true! Kids are mirrors; apples don’t fall far from trees. Not all of them. Some carry.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So does a kid snapping and shooting up the school, but it doesn’t mean we ignore guns.
Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee 2 months ago
but it doesn’t mean we ignore guns.
Uuuh, you sure about that? It seems like that shit keeps happening and nothing at all is being done about it.
mPony@lemmy.world 2 months ago
oh please. if guns became sentient someone would stack three of them in a trenchcoat and give them the right to vote.
tamal3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes, but it’s also new territory for us as a species. I’m sure the guidance and monitors will be significantly improved in the next decade, but a decade ago… It was the wild west, baby.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What a great way to dismiss an entire problems based that affects our society. It’s easier to just hand wave it away as someone else’s problem than to actually consider it…
When a problem becomes systematic it’s now a societal and cultural problem and not an individual responsibility problem. Individual responsibility isn’t working so it’s now down to the society this is occurring in to solve the systematic problem in a systematic way.
That’s how almost everything works
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re both right
LengAwaits@lemmy.world 2 months ago
systematic