@Shaz
Shaz
@Shaz · 0:14

When is the right time/age for a child to have a smartphone?

When do you think is the right time for A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A child to have a smartphone. This

What will be your rules or boundaries? Also how old were you when you got your smartphone?

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@bookishpodcast
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:24

Not a parent! Don’t know. But here are my thoughts...

Do I really believe a child needs a phone at that age? I don't, but I probably would just give him a phone just for the peer pressure aspect of it. But I wouldn't let them be on social media or anything. Not all through high school like my other friend is doing. Yeah. So those are my thoughts
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@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:52
This may sound highly opinionated, but I really feel sorry for the kids that grow with absolutely no screen time and who are going to come into a world filled with technology computers and they're just going to have to pick everything up while their peers. A lot of them have just been rocking out devices from day one and know the ins and outs and they're so familiar with them. The second thing I wanted to talk about was when you use the word reality and attention spans and also instant gratification
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@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:35
She's not allowed to converge with her friends online via chat or phone without informing us and encouraged her by allowing her to have these conversations almost regularly, just ensuring she doesn't overdo it. And the main reason for me preventing social media is, of course, we've heard about things like cyberbullying and, of course, the kind of characters that lurk around the internet need to see more. So, one bit of me does feel like she's not experiencing some of the benefits of social media
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@Thejasvi
KiraN Thejasvi Jin
@Thejasvi · 1:38
Well, I have seen my sister who is into parenting of her one and a half year old son. Of course he does not own a smartphone, but he uses a smartphone ipad he had to use to make him have of his food. But thanks to that, he has actually learned a lot of words a to Z in every possible category that we can imagine be it fruits, vehicles, cars, countries, anything
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@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 0:57

Pokémon Go decided for me.

One thing I've learned in parenting is that you can have these ideas and you can have plans of when your kid is going to get a cell phone. And then something like Pokemon Go comes out and that forces your hand and disrupts that plan just in a matter of minutes. So for me, I think my daughter was eleven or twelve, and I thought that was old enough anyways. But Pokemon Go just forced that conversation to happen, and I ended up getting my phone back
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@Ramya
Ramya V
@Ramya · 2:21

What they watch is what matters to me most..

I've been going easy on their screen time, but I do keep a strict eye on what they watch and what they play online, and I do plan to keep them away from social media as much, and as long as I possibly can for quite obvious reasons. But eventually, when the floodgates do open, I can't possibly send them out there without any guardrails
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