Real life stuff…
My 7th grader has been campaigning hard for a phone. We’ve somehow made it this far without putting devices in front of our kids. His older brother couldn’t be less interested in having a phone. But, socially, they are complete opposites. My 7th grader has a huge contingent of friends. And I’ve watched them all change, one by one, as their parents set them up with iPhones. Suddenly, the car pool rides that used to be full of hilarious kid conversations turn into whispering while passing phone screens around, or worse, each kid lost in their own private world of TikTok bullshit. Suddenly, instead of playing basketball, they’re all standing around and staring into their hands.
Meanwhile, I’ve been discovering that the high school they’re about to enter makes it impossible to go without a smart phone. School event tickets are only available as QR codes on a phone screen. Sports teams communications happen exclusively through GroupMe phone chats.
It’s so fucked up.
Children don’t need phones loaded with millions of distractions from real life. There is no need to start this addiction at age 13/14.
As adults, we are robbing the youth of their youth by giving them phones.
verly
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