• edric@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Older millennial here who didn’t get a (dumb) phone until high school, so I have no idea what the state is with kids and phones nowadays. Are they pressured by friends/school to have smart phones? How do you help them manage/cope?

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      7 months ago

      My personal experience as a university student who had to use a flip phone for like a month while waiting for a replacement screen to arrive for the main phone, which is quite similar to what would have probably happened 10 years ago when I was still in school.

      Everyone kinda expects you to just have one, for example, nobody uses the actual calling or SMS functions, they use chat apps like Messenger, WhatsApp, Line, or discord. Most of the people that I talk to in the university, I wouldn’t even be able to contact without the apps, since I don’t actually know their phone numbers or e-mails

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      7 months ago

      There are different challenges in early and late childhood. Things like peer pressure are a much bigger issue during late childhood.

      In early childhood the kid wants the entertainment and it’s incumbent upon the parent to deny them that and provide more enriching activities that have fewer strings attached.

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      7 months ago

      Yes. It’s how they communicate via social media and watch Tiktok. Also, the better the iphone you have, the cooler you are.