Or, because studies have shown that in early and mid childhood development stages cell phones and tablets can actually stunt motor proficiancy and cause arrested social development, just give them a damn key.

Much easier than every single other option. If they lose things, actually parent them and teach them to be responsible and different organizational methods and tie the key to something they always have.

you know that the whole anti-phone thing is propaganda right?
Propaganda from who? Big newspaper? Big book publisher? Big stick and wheel?
Various interests who profit from underfunding education who present phones as the boogeyman that made education bad. I don’t know, I’m just guessing.

It’s funny because everyone arguing for phones and tablets for kids is like “hurt durr but their education”

You know what the vast vast vast majority of kids use the phones and tablets for? Fucking sure as hell that it isn’t education.

Addicting microtransaction games, social media, and the lowest trash YouTube channels.

Pretty much every teacher in existence will tell you that phones for young kids have been hell and the kids can’t focus at all and have much more trouble learning.

And every single person with any awareness at all will know that social media has been an absolute plague to kids social and mental health.

Sure give a phone to your kid when they are 14, 15, 16. But when they are in primary school it is not needed and they are at the most risk for every bad aspect of phones.

@[email protected] If my lights don't work for some reason, it is annoying and my wife might laugh at it. But I wouldn't risk a custom solution where my kid can't enter the house because something broke (and something will break eventually). A key seems the right solution TBH