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My ex tried that with my daughter. She was mortified by the dumb phone and would not take it with her or keep it charged. I cannot say that I blame her, it was
by flatline 3y ago
My ex tried that with my daughter. She was mortified by the dumb phone and would not take it with her or keep it charged. I cannot say that I blame her, it was just there so her mom could reach out to her whenever she liked. No benefit to the kid.
I got her a smart phone at age 12, going into 6th grade. She has to take the bus to school from my place. Sometimes she misses the bus and walks 2 miles home - sometimes with a friend, sometimes solo. The phone is a huge safety factor in all of this, I don’t know what I’d do without it. There are no pay phones. Waiting till the 8th grade feels like it’s coming from a place of tremendous privilege to me. That’s great if you can swing it!
- voidhorse 3y agoYeah, it does seem like it'd be really circumstantial. Everyone's situations are different. That's kind of one of the big underlying problems with tech, it spreads virally and then becomes the baseline, even when that baseline harbors a bunch of potentially negative effects. I'm not surprised at all to hear that no kid today would want to be the weirdo with the dumb phone.
- vxNsr 3y agoGiving a child a smartphone is coming from a place of tremendous privilege. Phone plans aren’t cheap, phones aren’t cheap (at least phones that are usable aren’t). It’s baffling to me that you solved your problem by giving your child an incredibly addicting device that most child development experts compare to hard drugs.
- wpietri 3y agoAre you seriously trying to suggest that it's equivalently risky giving a 10 year old a phone or heroin?
- vxNsr 3y agoIs this a real question? Do you have difficulty understanding metaphors?
- wpietri 3y agoI don't. Which is why I asked. If you mean something else, perhaps you could be so kind as to say it.
- vxNsr 3y agoYou do appear to have difficulty as you took what I said in metaphor and applied it literally. that's not how metaphors work.
- wpietri 3y agoYou literally did not use a metaphor. You claimed that other people were making comparisons. But a metaphor is just one kind of comparative tool.
- vxNsr 3y agoYou continue to obstinately be overly semantic instead accepting that not everything is perfectly literal.
- wpietri 3y agoI understand not everything is perfectly literal. However, your literal point is bad and foolish, and if you were making a different one, it's still not clear what it is. So I'm just going to collapse this discussion believing that you didn't really have a point, and were just running your mouth with some hyperbole you coulnd't in the end justify.
- ndriscoll 3y agoHeroin no, but something like amphetamine/Adderall actually seems like a reasonable comparison to me.