Parents are teaming up to delay their children's first cell phone
Parents are teaming up to delay their children's first cell phone
english.elpais.com ‘A 12-year-old is not ready’: Why thousands of parents are teaming up to delay their children’s first cell phone use
A WhatsApp chat group based in Barcelona, Spain, filled up in just a few weeks with families who want to restrict devices among schoolchildren. It is the largest example of a movement that is growing among parents across Spain
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
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That's certainly an opinionated title
I don't see how not giving young kids access to rapid content social media is a bad thing
The "digital literacy" argument feels valid to me: don't bar them from cellphones forever, control their exposure and make it about learning rather than endless scrolling social media