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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Calls for smartphone-free childhood grow in Britain

www.straitstimes.com

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Calls for smartphone-free childhood grow in Britain

www.straitstimes.com

fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Almost all pupils in Britain now get a mobile phone around the age of 11 or 12. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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    Why does everything have to always be so goddamn black and white always? “Smartphones bad, let’s ban them for kids”. Why not have smartphones with parental regulation?

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      These parents are lazy

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      Or bring back flip phones. Calling and texting but does basically nothing else.

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      because parents are not regulating this. Its why we have minimum driving ages because parents cant just make their kid do the right thing.

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        Cars don’t have a feature called “parental control”. Smartphones do.

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