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> Yeah, I'm not giving my daughter a smart phone or tablet. i can tell you how this goes. when it becomes socially important to get one, she's going to do ever
by inconceivable 3y ago
> Yeah, I'm not giving my daughter a smart phone or tablet.
i can tell you how this goes. when it becomes socially important to get one, she's going to do everything in her power to get one behind your back, turning her into an extremely skilled liar (since her entire life will revolve around this lie), a skill which she will use whenever an opportune moment comes up.
- alexb_ 3y agoThis is totally what a healthy and non-addictive thing does to children, right? Children being socially pressured into lying to their parents and hiding what they do is something that happens with drugs. The fact that it happens with smartphones as well should tell you something.
- inconceivable 3y agoit happens with any socially normalized thing you attempt to withhold from a teenager. lmao just go ahead and try, doesn't matter to me.
- tkaiste112344 3y agoExcept drugs aren't the main means of socialization among today's children. You can stay off the grid, and deny your kids access to it, but you can't stop the advance of technology itself. Eventually your children will be left behind, ostracized by their peers for being weird/lame. Maybe even paranoid for life as a result of your helicopter parenting. And of course, when they finally get a smartphone, they will have zero experience in managing its "addictive" capabilities, which probably won't help their adult lives either. Source: anecdotal evidence of a friend who lives with depression and severe social anxiety as a result of similar experiences. Of course, there were other deciding factors that turned said person into what they are today. Make of this what you will.