‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood
‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood
Local WhatsApp group started by two mothers concerned about online safety attracts more than 4,000 members
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Dang if parents only could do anything about their children smartphone use.
My kid was the last one in their school year to get a smartphone. He was bullied for not having a smartphone. He used to ask me for one several times a day and I stuck to what I'd said, he'll get one on his birthday. I still feel it was far too early. He was 10 when he got it.
You did the right thing. If it was the 1900s and everyone else was to give their child cigarettes, they might get bullied for having no cigarettes, but you know what is best and you stuck with it
Also you are not getting bullied because you don't have cigarettes or smartphones, but because you lack self confidence and because you are perceived as social weak (your friends and random bystanders would not come to your help).
No, you are getting bullied because humans beings are morons who will jump to bully whoever is perceived as different. Do not blame the victim, for fuck sake.
I'm not blaming victims. Obviously it's on parents of the bully.
Maybe it's an useful trait that saved us from the other evil hominids? That and the uncanny valley.
Well good fucking job evolution, you managed to screw over autistic people who have empathy while psychopaths who know how to fake it get to abuse everyone
I mean, they wouldn't even survive if we were still living under the survival of the fittest stuff, which our society doesn't allow most of the time 🤔
Honestly you're severely ill-informed in both autism, evolution and prehistorical anthropology
You have completely misunderstood this and are trying to overlay some bizarre Andrew Tate-esque psychobabble to explain your misunderstanding.
What? I talk just from my own experience.
You have drawn an incorrect conclusion about the specifics of the social mechanics and cited it as "from your experience" after presenting it as fact.
You could simply have a poor grasp of social mechanics, or be misinformed, misunderstood the original premise but ultimately it doesn't really matter.
You implied lack of conformity and participation is not a cause of bullying - it absolutely is, its probably the original cause of most bullying.
A lot of words to say that you disagree, without actually explaining why bullies are not targeting kids who are at social disadvantage.
Kids can be real shitheads sometimes
Nope. You can't expect me to raise my own child How dare you!
Just like the UK bill wanting an ID for porn sites. And, in the EU, Youtube is wanting my ID for age verification to follow EU law. Isn't a much less authoritarian solution just to use blocklists, or even mandate sites send an unencrypted flag with content that is "adult" and browsers or routers can choose to deal with that or not.
Like if you don't want you child to use a smartphone - just don't buy one for them.
Youtube never asked for my ID (I’m in the EU). Which country is this?
They say EU law, and it's only if I want to watch age restricted videos. But Czech Republic
Something, something, something, and then BREXIT comes to mind. That worked out well.
In Sweden, it was mandatory for kindergartens to have "digital learning tools" up until a year ago. I wonder who came up with that brilliant idea.
What I mean is that it might not be so simple as not giving them access to it if other institutions persist in forcing it on them.
Like... join a protest demanding a smartphone-free childhood for everybody?
