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As always in there cases I have question to ask - where were the parents? Why they let their children use TikTok unsupervised that young?

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pawsforthought 4y ago
Never mind just TikTok, why did the children have access to smartphones at all? But then, I think that’s where you’ll find your answer. This technology pacifies, or at the very least occupies.
- prirun 4y ago
  IMO, young kids need a phone that only has family numbers on it for texting or phone calls. No internet.
- tzs 4y ago
  > Never mind just TikTok, why did the children have access to smartphones at all? Perhaps because public telephones have largely disappeared? I remember when I was a kid, before cell phones, and our parents let us do things on our own we'd make sure we had some change so that if something went wrong we could just find a payphone and call home for help. Same if we had a change of plans and needed to let our parents know we were going to be late.
Etherlord87 4y ago
I don't have kids, my nephew is watching tiktok, though. I think it's unrealistic to think you can supervise a child completely, but probably there should be an easy interface to see what your children were watching - then you can at least teach your children that some of these things are dangerous. For example, my nephew showed me a prank with a flour poured into a hairdrier - to which I commented that it's dangerous because a flour is highly flammable, and the construction of the hairdrier makes for a very good igniter (very high temperature wires + blowing the flour with air, dispersing it and increasing the surface area of contact with air).
NoPicklez 4y ago
Is TikTok the problem though? Kids can Google whatever they want and find harmful things. This challenge was a thing in middle school back in 2006 but we didn't have phones then.
thebruce87m 4y ago
Try as you might, you can’t keep your eyes on them the whole time.

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pawsforthought 4y ago

Never mind just TikTok, why did the children have access to smartphones at all? But then, I think that’s where you’ll find your answer. This technology pacifies, or at the very least occupies.

prirun 4y ago
IMO, young kids need a phone that only has family numbers on it for texting or phone calls. No internet.
tzs 4y ago
> Never mind just TikTok, why did the children have access to smartphones at all? Perhaps because public telephones have largely disappeared? I remember when I was a kid, before cell phones, and our parents let us do things on our own we'd make sure we had some change so that if something went wrong we could just find a payphone and call home for help. Same if we had a change of plans and needed to let our parents know we were going to be late.

Etherlord87 4y ago

I don't have kids, my nephew is watching tiktok, though. I think it's unrealistic to think you can supervise a child completely, but probably there should be an easy interface to see what your children were watching - then you can at least teach your children that some of these things are dangerous. For example, my nephew showed me a prank with a flour poured into a hairdrier - to which I commented that it's dangerous because a flour is highly flammable, and the construction of the hairdrier makes for a very good igniter (very high temperature wires + blowing the flour with air, dispersing it and increasing the surface area of contact with air).

NoPicklez 4y ago

Is TikTok the problem though? Kids can Google whatever they want and find harmful things. This challenge was a thing in middle school back in 2006 but we didn't have phones then.

thebruce87m 4y ago

Try as you might, you can’t keep your eyes on them the whole time.