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Are you worried about your child’s screentime? Get a landline
(www.theguardian.com)
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I think their experience is very relevant. It illustrates perfectly that kids don't need to be immersed in technology from a young age to become proficient at it later in life, if it's beneficial to them.
Its anecdotal at best. Its like if someone was saying "we should give kids school lunch so they preform better at school" and then I replied "I didnt have school lunch and I got top my class" you'd think ok that changes nothing.
There is a lot of research to support the idea that adults are less likely to pick up a skill if they weren't exposed to it as a kid. If you dont grow up working with technology to make things you're less likely to go down that route as an adult or late teen. Thats a huge disadvantage in today's age.
Eating lunch at school meets a basic human need and doesn't really have a downside, though. It seems like there's increasing reason to believe that cellphones, social media, online classes, etc actually hurt young people's psychological and social development. I can understand why some parents would be wary of feeding into that.
I can understand why parents woulr be wary giving their kids to much access to technology thats why I'm pushing back and saying that going full Luddite returning to a landline is not the answer.
@Fizz @swelter_spark I was raised with IT from basically my 9th birthday. The difference was when i was allowed to use IT it was always in a supervisioned environment till i was 14.
Imho we should make all responsible persons ( parents / teacher / trainer ... ) aware of their responsibility again and help them to fullfill their role.
In the 80's and 90's parents could buy a TV for their kids. If they did so, they totally did understand that it's their task to make sure how much , in what way and when their kids use the TV.
The society could support by giving labels or times for certain content but they would never stop the availability of certain content.
Remember the special corners in stores who lend vhs's and dvd's ?
We need to stop over controlling and for sure we need to stop getting lobbied by groups who want to sell their products (business) or want to change the society for their believes (religions).
There was a reason why democracies usually doesn't have both influenced their law making.