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> Pagers and phones are MY devices, and I get to decide how I will respond to them. Oh, so you've never had the "why didn't you pick up/ call back/ answer my t
by cookie_monsta 2y ago
> Pagers and phones are MY devices, and I get to decide how I will respond to them.
Oh, so you've never had the "why didn't you pick up/ call back/ answer my text/ etc" conversation with your partner? Lucky...
- JoeAltmaier 2y agoNot at our house. We decided early on that the phone was for the owner not everybody else. One of my sons even leaves it in a drawer, takes it out once a day to check.
- bee_rider 2y agoThat’s pretty cool. Your son has a better relationship to technology than a lot of adults. Probably reflects some good parenting, nice work.
- kanbara 2y ago“we” — you mean that you decided for your family, removing agency from other humans
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoI’m having a hard time understanding how allowing each person to use their phone as they please is removing their agency.
- worthless-trash 2y agoIf you can't decide what is better for your kid, maybe you shouldn't be a parent.
- cookie_monsta 2y agoI'm finding that the most stridently-held views on parenting tend to come from non-parents Everybody else seems to accept that it's an endless series of tweaks, adjustments and highly context-specific compromises
- worthless-trash 2y ago> I'm finding that the most stridently-held views on parenting tend to come from non-parents In this case is it the children ?
- op00to 2y agoSure, we have that discussion and I answer and we set clear boundaries.