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Dawnrazor said:

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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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When I was 8 me and my friends would get dropped at the mall on a Saturday, watch a movie get a burger and call someone's parent to come and get us afterwards. By the time we were 12, we were riding our bikes to the theatre and calling for a ride if it started raining Somehow we survived.

You sound like the kind that keeps their kid on a leash and loses their shit if it dares to be in a different room from you.

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35 years ago at age 6-7, I used to ride on the streets with my cousins alone and play football. The regulations, traffic are insane now. You just cannot let a kid outside alone nowadays. Add to that all those predators out there and irresponsible f**ks, it's just not the same world.
This applies to you giving your child unrestricted access to anything on a phone. AND posting videos of themselves online. Don't you think some perv someone is getting off those videos? Or he is getting influenced and his brain shaped by those images and videos that he sees? Don't you think it's damaging his attention span, overstimulating his brain and promoting the instant gratification culture?
Kids have no business using those garbage social websites and even less business posting pics and videos of themselves where this can be used to locate and t rack them or those stuffs be used someway or another....