fne8w2ah‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood
lazynoobletWho is buying the phones? The parents. So the parents buy their children a phone and then surprised Pikachu?
Fudoshin ️🏳️🌈Peer pressure. Kids at school get the new greatest phone and tell their parents. Parents feel compelled to get it for their kids.
IndiBronyThat’s still on the parents. My little lad is 15 and never had his own phone until his tweens. Amusingly, he was older than me when I got my first phone back in the 90s.
He never got bullied for not having a phone.
He may not have been bullied, but he may have missed out on bonding and closeness that his peers enjoyed. There was a study that showed life is way better for kids if they don’t have a phone, but only if their peers also don’t have phones
hulemyThis fact alone makes me conflicted about this. I don’t want my kids to walk around having phones from an early age, but I know first hand that being excluded as a kid is not a enjoyable experience. And kids are vicious creatures to each other too.