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A two pronged attack: One, adults encourage permissive smartphone use and also become authentically engaged in all the relevant online spaces. Two, adults just
by xkcd-sucks 3y ago
A two pronged attack: One, adults encourage permissive smartphone use and also become authentically engaged in all the relevant online spaces. Two, adults just stop paying attention to kids at all in real life, no safety, liability, regulation, best practices, bureaucratic systems, nothing, unless informally as an urgent matter of certain loss of life and limb. End result is online stops being the place for kids to a brief respite from overbearing busybodies.
- tw04 3y agoThere's a pretty wide swath of normal in the middle of all of that. I hate to break it to you, but in the "good old days" - parents didn't "stop paying attention to kids at all". Half of the reason kids could run around "unsupervised" is because stay-at-home-mom was the norm for most women. Which meant if your kid was a mile away from home, you knew that someone else was still making sure they weren't getting into too much trouble and if they were you'd get a call letting you know what was going on. I remember more than one occasion where I knew there was a 50/50 chance I was going to be grounded before I walked in the door for dinner, despite "being unsupervised" for the entire day during the summer.