It is - seem to recall that may have been his 'Soccer Stars' sticker pic from the 70s... which I collected as a lad...
Bit of an argument between me and my nippers mum at the minute. She wants him to have a smartphone when he goes to senior school next September whereas I'm like absolutely not and thinking 14/15 at the absolute youngest.
I wonder if they could create a young persons version of social media, that prepares them for the future. I don't know, it's just a thought I'm chucking out there. I wouldn't want my grandson to be on it, but where does the threshold start, especially when the kids are growing up in a digital tecnological age. I'd say all of us on here grew up without it, but we need to look at the world through their eyes and how we can keep them safe in that process of growing up in a different era, without being big brother. Like I say I don't know the answers.
Such hard decisions for you as parents, you are damned if you do and damned if you don't, but to think differently is a good thing, because you can make a mindful list of the pros and cons. If conditions are set before any smartphone is given, the easier conditions can be applied and the more likelihood of agreement from the little one, rather than after, where you'd get the 'but daaad.' Whereas if conditions are applied before, the clearer the rules to them, because they won't want it taken away. My grandson is allowed game time dictated by his mum and dad, but there is no connection to third parties. Interesting topic though.
Just had a read up on that and looks really interesting. Don't watch TV normally but will definitely give that a watch this week and ask her to as well.
I think we have to fight against this attitude of not wanting our kids to be different to their friends, guilty of it myself. "But all my friends have one I don't want to be different" we have to make a change and your kids is going to have to be different because it's not right for them to hand access to a smart phone and all the grief that comes with it. Will your kid then get bullied for being different? Possibly but I think at this point that is the better option.
My 3310 was fine. Can you not put age locks on these things? Useful for kids to have access to google maps if they get lost. I think a total social media ban to 16 is too much but it’s basically just pornbots and gambling ads now so if there’s a way for the platforms to age restrict content or the phones themselves to filter it out then I think access to the platforms and smart phones in general is fine.
Throw the whole 21st century in the bin imo. We are sleep walking into a sci-fi horror movie. #Message generated by ChatGpt or some bollocks
Probably but I don't particularly trust them and I'm sure there's way around these things. Ultimately the 'missing out' factor is all about social media and I don't want him using it full stop until he's much older. He's got a ****ty Nokia already cos he walks home from school on his own. That'll do fine until 15.
If not 25. I had to walk three miles each way in the snow and we only got a less violent beating for Christmas. They don’t know they’re bloody born.
