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> So please tell me a concrete applicable way that we can apply today to protect them. Data allowance. Not just mobile data, Wi-Fi as well. You can blow throu
by Tade0 3y ago
> So please tell me a concrete applicable way that we can apply today to protect them.
Data allowance. Not just mobile data, Wi-Fi as well.
You can blow through 1GB of TikTok in an evening, but the same 1GB gives you more text than you can consume within a month.
Gradually increase it the same way you would with money.
- abwizz 3y agonot a bad idea. thou im not sure that 1GB of <comments on anonymous internet forum> will do less harm than a few hours of vanityfair videos.
- Tade0 3y agoTrue, which is why this will not be the only technique I'll use once my daughter comes of age. Education and setting an example are two others I have in mind for now - the latter is of course easier said than done but honestly, if we truly believe something is healthy, why not do it ourselves?
- gls2ro 3y agoPlease let's make a difference between what a parent can do (and what you propose is doable) and what a community can do. I allow restricted access to my kid: no mobile phone access, limited time to watch cartoon, no tv, limited access to laptop only for scratch for example, limited access to some educational videos about nature... He can use command line or repl to play for example with math questions... While also getting used with keyboard, mouse... Trying to find a good balance. But unless I plan to keep him at home he goes to community and socialize and I have to explain why we don't do this or why we don't do that and to explain why others are playing games or have phones. And I do explain. But I am also concerned about the social groups they are all growing. The majority are not like this. So he will live in a society maybe with people hooked on screens. Maybe he will find a bubble maybe not.