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BradC:

--- Quote from: MrMobodies on September 22, 2021, 09:41:35 pm ---What do you think?

Could you stand being restricted like that with electronic stuff given to you at around that age?

Just thought about the title:
Find a balance... Maybe educate and talk to the children more about their device and safety?

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I was restricted at around that age because the computer was in the family room and I wasn't supposed to be out of my room after bed time. Now they can smuggle the computer under the covers with them.

We occasionally have to put restrictions on our 7 year olds iPad. Not often, and more as a reminder than anything. We've been struggling with it for a few months now because after a bit of a family issue he tends to hide inside Minecraft as an escape, so we do cut him some slack but there's a delicate balance to be struck and time restrictions help us manage that.

We all have our coping mechanisms.

ejeffrey:

--- Quote from: MrMobodies on September 22, 2021, 09:41:35 pm ---Just thought about the title:
Find a balance... Maybe educate and talk to the children more about their device and safety?

--- End quote ---

Finding a balance is about letting kids make some choices and not others in an age and individual appropriate fashion so that they can both learn to become independent while avoiding unnecessary harm and making sure other needs are taken care of.

Of course parents should educate their kids about device safety and responsibility while also exercising some control over those devices until they demonstrate that they are able to do so responsibly with less oversight.

I have no opinion on whether this tool is good or appropriate.  Presumably it will be useful  for some and not others.  Some people might even use it poorly or ineffectively but the idea doesn't seem fundamentally bad.

What you are advocating for (no restrictions! Absolute freedom!) Is both a delusional fiction that never exists and nothing like finding a balance or responsible parenting.

By the way this applies whether the device was "given" to the child or they "bought" it.  A 10 year old saving up to buy a phone is fine but it absolutely does not mean they can use it however and whenever they want.

magic:

--- Quote from: Monkeh on September 23, 2021, 01:24:00 am ---Ah, yes, people are not good parents because they're not Christians. Absolutely checks out.

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It truly does. Elementary logic teaches that if correlation doesn't imply causation then absence of causation doesn't imply absence of correlation ;)

Indeed, most atheists are so insistent on spiting Christians that with the religion they have abandoned all sanity too.
And most Christians are so insistent on getting along with the former that they will gradually abandon every principle to fit in.

TL;DR: we live in a crazy world and there is nothing you can do save for waiting till the New Sodom burns down :-DD

thinkfat:
I use Family Link on my two young ones tablet computers. They're 5 and 8 and can not yet be expected being able to self-regulate their media intake. If I gave them free reign over their gadgets, they'd neglect other important stuff they should be doing, sports, playing with friends, learning to interact with other human beings, solving conflicts sensibly and non-violently.

Gradually these restrictions will be removed of course, but for now, Family Link is the right approach for them.

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