Do this and will be okay
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I mean, what Jon is talking about is fully monitoring it. Most " normal " kids with school and other routines are only going to get a finite amount of screentime.
Leaving them alone with a screen for very long un-interacted with is a crap way to parent no matter what theyāre doing on there.
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Not sure thatās fair. Iām not a parent so donāt really have real world experience on this, obviously you have kids so I may well be wrong, but I can imagine itās extremely difficult to curtail a childās screen use once they have their own phone? If theyāre 10, sure, parents can lock it down and take it away. But if theyāre 15, 16 and have their own phone I can imagine itād be impossible. Even with the best will in the world.
Thats not even including computer game stuff.
Mate Twitter is so fuckedā¦
I thought Iād done something wrong to get all of the filth but the only thing I have done wrong is not delete my account after Musk bought it.
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Oh yeah Iām talking about when theyāre under 10, when you should be aware of everything they are looking at really. Once they are 14, 15, 16 itās much harder to do that without seeming like some kind of authoritarian to them.
Seems like the too much screen time thing is something that can start really early when you have both parents working just to pay rent etc. Itās so easy to be judgmental but in reality itās much more difficult. Not trying to minimise that at all as my shit definitely stinks too.
The habits start young
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Oh yeah. Obviously sometimes you just need your child to shut up for 20 minutes so pop them infront of the iPad.
But when you read about preschool children trying to swipe on books, it gets a bit worrying
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Some people just leave them on there for yonks. That is what is most damaging I think. Everyone needs real interaction and experiences.
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Someone said kids are overprotected in the real world and underprotected online. Thinking back to my own childhood and even without the rose tinted specs on I think thereās a big element of truth to that. But I guess the problem then might be what the fuck are they meant to do instead if they lose a major way that they interact with friends.
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We have the kids devices timed so once they have reached that time it locks them out. They go through phases of wanting to sit on them and be lazy and then they donāt touch their phone or watch anything on YT for a week. I think itās all about normalising them not needing it without too much of an hoohaa.
Been trying to get mine (both under 11) into regular organised clubs/activities so they get lots of social contact that way but appreciate itās not the full picture especially when they get into teenage years
Yeah, it seems so much has to be based around organised activities now. Itās a shame they canāt just hang out with mates outside. There are kids that still do that at my daughters school but mainly itās the ones whose parents give no fucks at all what theyāre up to whereas it just used to be the norm.
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Cricket twice a week for mine, swimming once and football once. I think thatās enough at 7.
They canāt go outside and play like we did.
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No we donāt. Thereās proof that the algorithms created by Meta etc to purposely make you addicted to the platforms(largely through targeting emotions like anxiety and anger) are bad for people. The government could even go after these companies and heavily regulate their algorithms, but that would be too much like hard work and might make some shareholders and billionaires upset and we canāt have that.
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Social media was pretty fun at the start. Itās unrecognisable now, ads, sponsored posts, disinformation, rage bait, itās an algorithmic hell scape.
Did buy a set of double ladders off market place once though, not all bad.
Respect from a MySpace fan.
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What about MSN?
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We need MySpace Tom to make a return and save us from the algorithm. Made Ā£50 million (peanuts in 2026 tech money) and retired before he was 35 and was never heard from again. Legend
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If the internet was only available on desktop computers weād be laughing!
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Glad heās finally been caught.
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I need to ban myself from Instagram. What an incredible waste of time.
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American Psycho vibes
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