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Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback (www.straitstimes.com)
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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Waiting until they are a teenager is far too late to form the appropriate habits around self limiting screen time.

Given that smartphones didn’t even exist until I was a teenager, going to go ahead and call bullshit on that.

this is clearly a parenting issue

Sure is. Too many parents handing their developing children smartphones long before they should. Luckily OP hasn’t made that mistake.

And nobody needs articles to tell them the corporations and algorithms are evil. Some of us are old enough to have lived through the advent of them.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Exactly. I see kids walking to elementary school staring at a smartphone. Why? What could they possibly need a smartphone for?

I'm not sure when we'll give our kids phones, but certainly not in elementary school. I might start them on a flip phone in middle school/junior high (like 12-13yo) so they can text, and probably give them a PC as well around that time for intro to SM so they can keep up w/friends. But a smartphone isn't happening for a while. Until then, if they need a phone, I'll have one they can borrow.