I have children, including a teen, and they have phones.
One thing I do notice is that they’re quite a lot better at putting the phone away when they’re with friends doing stuff or at family dinners than their grandparents who keeps checking notifications and answering calls regardless of when and where.
They grew up with phones and they have a much better understanding of when it’s socially acceptable to use it.
They know not use the phone during class, so there’s really no good reason to ban it entirely.
USSEthernet@startrek.website 5 weeks ago
That’s your kids which are in the minority.
bstix@feddit.dk 5 weeks ago
Their friends are pretty good too. Whenever they hang out they do other stuff. They plan to meet for some purpose and that’s what they do. Keeping up to date on social media is something they do on their own time when they’re bored.
It’s like they grow out of it, once they’ve seen enough crap.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I know one family like that. Kids prefer activities to phones. But the rest not so much. The kids get together and do things in spurts separated by phone time. Usually whatever they are doing, at least one of them is on the phone. So it is really kid dependent.
USSEthernet@startrek.website 5 weeks ago
That’s great and all, but you have to remember that your anecdotal evidence may not represent the majority. In this case, enough of the country is noticing a problem.
My teen chooses not to take his phone to school because he knows it’ll distract him. But the stuff he tells me happens at school with phones blows my mind. It’s amazing half of the entire class isn’t failing tremendously.
The county has had to become more lenient on kids’ grades that want to join sports teams because otherwise they wouldn’t have a team, it’s that bad.
bstix@feddit.dk 5 weeks ago
I think you’re missing my point.
I doubt the sports jocks use their phone during sports ball practice?
Seems like a sports jock attention problem more than a phone availability problem.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Your anecdotes and your kid’s anecdotes might not represent reality either. But somehow y’all are (violently) banning phones for everybody.
Fijxu@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
True
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Citations needed.