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Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback
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You seem like a great parent! I'm personally leaning towards giving them dumb phones once they have to take public transport to school, for the convenience of them being able to inform me when they miss the bus or want to have lunch at a friend's. But who knows if or when I'll even have kids, lol. Maybe things will change in that time.
Yeah, that's my take as well. When they need one, we'll start simple. If they do well with that, we'll expand to a smartphone, again, when they need it (maps and whatnot).
Right now, my kids don't need it since we take them to/from school (charter school), but the oldest will be changing schools soon to the local public school, so they may need one for after school activities. I'm not giving them something because their friends have it (theirs do), I'll give them something because they need/earned it.
I used to miss the bus all the time before having a phone. But it didn't matter; I wasn't going to be late for anything, I just had to figure out another way home, usually walking which took about 45 to an hour.
If I wanted to go to a friend's house, I'd usually just go to their house and then call using their phone.