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    Dawnrazor said:
    Legion427 said:
    I'm getting so tired of hearing parents cry about their 8 year old being addicted to the internet. Take their phone away. It's truly that simple. Why did you give an 8 year old a phone to begin with? I'm betting the real answer is "to shut them up so I don't have to pay attention to them." I don't care if Purdue Pharma is making cartoons about how cool opioids are, you're the reason they keep watching it. Y'all cram a screen in their face every second they get and then wonder why they shoot up their schools or kill themselves. This kind of crap is why abortion should not only be legal but, in some cases, mandatory.
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    Why do you give a kid a phone?

    Maybe because they leave the house occasionally and need a way to call home to get picked up? When was the last time you saw a pay phone?
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    You let your eight-year-old willy-nilly walk around the streets? Unless they're going to a friend's house no more than two or three blocks away, they need to be driven, or you walk with them. Once there, they can use the phone there to call for you to come get them, or the parent of the friend can drive them back. We're long past the time when suburban or rural children can walk about without care, and no way in hell should an urban child be left unattended and out of sight.
     
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