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We've decided to wait till 10th grade to give our kid a smartphone. We might get a dumb phone sooner than that if they need to call us. It's easy to see kids ge
by throwaway2729 3y ago
We've decided to wait till 10th grade to give our kid a smartphone. We might get a dumb phone sooner than that if they need to call us. It's easy to see kids getting addicted to any type of screen - TV, laptops, etc. Having a phone with them all the time seems like a terrible idea.
- ramraj07 3y agoYou could easily give them a basic iPhone with full lockdown on every app with just basic communication and internet browsing abilities.. why not that option?
- antonyt 3y agoWhy spend a few hundred dollars to turn an iPhone into a $50 phone? Feature phones give you communication and basic (if often painful) internet browsing abilities.
- camhart 3y agoiOS screen time/parental controls are a joke to bypass. To be clear I'm not aruging that parental controls are bad or not worth it--I'm arguing that Apple's built in mechanisms fail far too easily. https://protectyoungeyes.com/12-ingenious-screen-time-hacks-how-to-beat-them/ https://protectyoungeyes.com/12-ingenious-screen-time-hacks-...