Do Children Need A Mobile

[crookesey]

I just wonder how many past child assaults/murders could have been avoided If mobile’s had been readily available to them, the answer surely has got to be ‘some’.

[cuttsie]

6 minutes ago, crookesey said:

I just wonder how many past child assaults/murders could have been avoided If mobile’s had been readily available to them, the answer surely has got to be ‘some’.

On line grooming is now a epidemic due to the mobile era .

[crookesey]

1 minute ago, cuttsie said:

On line grooming is now a epidemic due to the mobile era .

True, wherever there’s a plus there’s a minus lurking behind it.

[PRESLEY]

1 hour ago, spilldig said:

No-one had a phone on our estate, there was just a pay phone about half a mile away.

Your lucky it was intact, BT stopped coming to repair the one at end our street after the kids blew it up one bonfire night. Madness. 

[crookesey]

8 minutes ago, PRESLEY said:

Your lucky it was intact, BT stopped coming to repair the one at end our street after the kids blew it up one bonfire night. Madness. 

I’ve often wondered if a fully functioning pay phone could have saved the life of the nearest and dearest of the person who defunctioned it.

 

[ECCOnoob]

6 hours ago, cuttsie said:

On line grooming is now a epidemic due to the mobile era .

.....ah yes, grooming and luring of underage persons never happened in the analogue days of the 60s and 70s did it?   Bad people do bad people things no matter what technology. Crimes may evolve but it can hardly be blamed on the tools.

 

It's all well and good cherry picking through rose-tinted nostalgia about the so-called good old days but let's not also not forget how difficult, slow, and complex things were back then.... The days when there was one government mandated supplier of a phone line where you got told if and when you could have one and restricted to exactly what equipment they would allow......... The days when contacting relatives and acquaintances in the next city had to be a considered financial decision and very much limited, for most of us, to occasional , brief, off peak chat.   As for telecommunicating with relatives abroad forget it. Far too costly those early satellite line calls.  They just stuck with the odd letter and card......  The days when even the simplest transaction or communication would take an age with lots of agonising waits for the office secretary to finally transcribe the dictation of a letter and the postman to finally deliver it.

 

The fact is that the age of the computer isn't going away. Kids have to be tech ready from the moment they hit adult if not teenage life. Even the most basic of jobs from cleaning or warehouse involves a minimum level of technical ability and expectation of at least smartphone use if not computerised program use.   Even our homes are becoming the internet of everything with smart this, automated that, digital other.

 

Whilst I agree that has to be some control over mobile use particularly in the classroom, just like the working world, I feel it's only inevitable that most kids in the upper range of school-age will have to have a mobile of some sort.

Edited January 12, 2022 by ECCOnoob

[Annie Bynnol]

Many children have their bus pass on their smartphone.

Many children will have their bus/train season tickets on their smartphone.

Many children will be able to find out if their bus/train/taxi is on its way.

Many children can be notified by their parents about appointments, change to plans etc.

Having a smartphone is a big help in keeping children safe.

 

[cgksheff]

22 minutes ago, Annie Bynnol said:

Many children have their bus pass on their smartphone.

Many children will have their bus/train season tickets on their smartphone.

Many children will be able to find out if their bus/train/taxi is on its way.

Many children can be notified by their parents about appointments, change to plans etc.

Having a smartphone is a big help in keeping children safe.

 

I am not aware of a school that bans phones.

Nearly all insist that phones are kept (switched off) in bags and not used inside school.

[cuttsie]

16 minutes ago, Isabellahow said:

It's 2022, many useful things are already digital and you can keep them in your phone, it's more a necessity rather then a caprice. Kids need to have their phone, I can contact them whenever I need or want, this is why I am buying this particular phone for my kid. There are tons of ways to restrict kids access to browsers, youtube videos games and other stuff during lessons. It's not necessary to take the phone away from kids during school, I need to be informed how my kid feels and if he have a problem or any other thing that should be shared with me firstly, I should know about it. Don't understand this trend to take phone from kids in school

Long summer days , out to play early morning , stick of rhubarb and sugar , apples scrimped for dinner , walking for miles and miles or fields hills and dales , walk in door at 5  6 or 7 pm and mam says "Hello love had a good day " then Woolf tea down and out again before it gets to dark , 

What ever has happened .

Edited January 14, 2022 by cuttsie

[L00b]

1 hour ago, cuttsie said:

Long summer days , out to play early morning , stick of rhubarb and sugar , apples scrimped for dinner , walking for miles and miles or fields hills and dales , walk in door at 5  6 or 7 pm and mam says "Hello love had a good day " then Woolf tea down and out again before it gets to dark , 

What ever has happened .

Life happened.
 

Ask your alter ago youth of a 100 years earlier still, what their “long summer days” were like. Up at crack of dawn, clean the pig sty, feed the chickens, harvest all day long until dusk, bowl of soup, bed.