Posted on 09/25/2022 5:23:02 PM PDT by thecodont
Why Mr Adams, you’re bringing back memories of freedom.
“not above 90 in many cases.”
Mom is 98 and is worse than a teenager with her cell phone.
52.
I still don’t want a smartphone
I concur, 18+ ... as soon as they can afford one and sign the plan without any cosigners.
Really? My idea was good? I don’t have kids, but that idea made sense to me.
It is not about money. It is about human development. They need to learn to socialize in their teens. They’re in a different phase of development at that time. People need to learn to speak face to face before they can manage alternate forms of communication
My grandson turned 12 yesterday and his parents gave him one of their old phones, an iPhone 6. He’s a straight A student who is in the gifted program. He goes to a charter school where kids can only access the school intranet during school hours. If he doesn’t follow the rules his parents have set for the phone, his dad will take it away, believe me.
65
“ A smart phone is a porn conduit”
Oh. And there’s that.
Aren’t smartphone prices like up close to 200/mo? or something?
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Be careful out on the roadways. Keep an eye out for the
‘smart phones’. Dey may be heading your way. We are
closer to self driving cars but not quite there yet.
You may have thought they didn't know. After I was grown and had moved out, I was surprised to find out how much my parents had known about what the six of us kids were up to. The neighborhood housewives' surveillance and intelligence network could have taught some things to the KGB and Stasi.
A lot of the time, my parents' attitude was, "Meh, he learned a lesson and didn't suffer permanent harm, so what the hell."
I started on the computer in 1989.
When my kids were in about 6-7th grade (late 90s) I bought them 2 computer games.
My daughter didn’t like them and went back to books.
My son loved his chess program, got on his college chess team and ended up with a PhD in AI.
They didn’t get flip phones until high school.
Face to face is the way to go.
I went to work full time when I was 15, had to lie about my age to get it. I even had two jobs at the same time back then, one full time in the day and a part time job at night. I bought my first car before I was even eligible age wise for a driver’s license. A ‘56 Chevy Nomad by the way (Sweet!). I grew up fast, but you had to in my house. It was sink or swim.
I definitely would have been responsible enough to have my own phone if they would have been available. Kids today? I don’t know about.
I’m sorry, but I’m not sure if those folks saying “18” are residing on planet Earth in 2022. Any family with a kid in high school is aware that smartphone penetration of the teen market is close to 100%, with the Apple iphone having maybe 90% of that. Maybe there are some homeschooling kids out there who don’t have or need smartphones, but in 2022 if you’re a normal teen going to a normal school, you likely have an iphone. We can gnash our teeth all we want about how costly and inappropriate this, but it’s just reality whether we like it or not. To the folks on here insisting, “I don’t care what everyone else is doing; I would never let my teen have a smartphone,” my response: Uh, huh, sure. Talk is cheap. Call us back when you actually have a teen in 2022 and let us know how that’s going.
Oh yes ma’am. Don’t let people tell you you don’t know what to do with kids just because you don’t have any. My best ideas came from my teenage memories, a few intelligent priests who came fro big families and listened to confessions all Saturday afternoons and a childless great aunt who interacted with people.
Besides that- common sense.
Agree. Our children get a phone when they are 18 and have a job and can pay for it 100% themselves. Until then, they can use the “Family Spare Phone” on occasions when they need it to, say, call for a ride when an event of indeterminate duration ends.
Well, I’m 77 and I still don’t have (or need) one, so there’s MY answer.
And yes. That’s what we did. Successfully.
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