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Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback
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this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2025
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Reasonable point, but people have worn watches all day for centuries. Just clean then and rotate wrists.
Something that big and heavy on a kid's arm is going to get uncomfortable after like ten minutes.
One watch, the Garmin Bounce, weights 37.2 g. https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/714945#specs
Hardly heavy.
That's not so bad. I was looking at the picture in the article. That thing is enormous compared to the kid's arm.
Understandable, the watch is the photo does appear large. Kid's arms are tiny.
I have a Pixel Watch that's about that size (36g IIRC), and I don't like wearing it, and I'm a grown adult.
I got my kids cheap Casios, and they're like 20g. Way better.