more like parents actually parenting rather than plugging their kids in and leaving them to their own devices out of laziness. allowing the state to parent them (and all of us adults,it seems) instead.
kids should honestly have no more than a dumb phone and limited access to a family computer which should only be used for school work.and light browsing monitored at the parents discretion. until they are old enough to make mature, informed decisions themselves. but the parents should have the right to choose how they engage with technology.
brain development and mandatory critical thinking skills need to be instilled before having unfilitred access to the most addicting misinformation technology on the planet. thats my personal preference, but i am not everyone. and one size does not fit all in this case.
more like parents actually parenting rather than plugging their kids in and leaving them to their own devices out of laziness. allowing the state to parent them (and all of us adults,it seems) instead.
kids should honestly have no more than a dumb phone and limited access to a family computer which should only be used for school work.and light browsing monitored at the parents discretion. until they are old enough to make mature, informed decisions themselves. but the parents should have the right to choose how they engage with technology.
brain development and mandatory critical thinking skills need to be instilled before having unfilitred access to the most addicting misinformation technology on the planet. thats my personal preference, but i am not everyone. and one size does not fit all in this case.
I 100% agree with everything you said.
The sad reality is that is extremely difficult, and in most cases imposible to restrict kids phone and social media usage.
Is the equivalent of not having the X cool toy, clothing or shoes of the moment but exponentially critical for not being a pariah.
The only way to revert this situation would be a majority or parents agreeing to restrict their kids at the same time.
This doesn’t happen because parents are distracted and consumed by, you guessed it, phones and social media.
Its like the serpent that eats its tail, a self fulfilling never ending enshitification of the human condition.