Chekhov Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 (edited) I was out for the day with my 10 year old last week and were waiting in Leeds station for our connection when I happened to look over at a mother (or young grandmother) with her two kids also waiting for a train. Both her kids had Smartphones and were engrossed in them, there was no conversation going on between any of them. It was thoroughly depressing as it reminded me that sooner or later we feel we are going to have to buy our child a Smartphone and that is what we will be fighting against. I really really do not want our lad to have one*, in fact the thought of it depresses me, but are we right that by the time he gets to Secondary school pretty much all the kids will have one and the odd child who does not may get picked on ? * he will never be off it and it'll be arguments all the soddin' time. It's like that now when he's on the laptops but at least he usually has to do something positive (e.g. homework or reading) to get on there and, significantly, we control access to them via the passwords or, ultimately, just switching off the WiFi ! Edited April 15, 2023 by Chekhov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeHasRisen Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 Correct. Buy him one before September or he will be bullied mercilessly. Could you live with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geared Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 Should be some good parental control apps to keep abit of an eye on whats going on. They'll all be on social media and messaging apps tho, it's life now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cressida Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 Does he mention that he wants one, get him a dummy one or bribe him with something else, no neither will probably fool him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padders Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 Flaming menace this technology, bin the lot ... Seems to me everybody is now staring into their phones.. What happened to the Clacker balls, Pogo Sticks, Skipping ropes, Rubiks cube, Scooters, Pea shooters, Catapults.. Lets turn the clock back......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRESLEY Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 17 minutes ago, Padders said: Flaming menace this technology, bin the lot ... Seems to me everybody is now staring into their phones.. What happened to the Clacker balls, Pogo Sticks, Skipping ropes, Rubiks cube, Scooters, Pea shooters, Catapults.. Lets turn the clock back......... Everything apart from the Rubik cube you mentioned will keep the A&E busy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 Saw a lad yesterday, about 10 years old putting an i phone in his pocket . At that age all that was in my pocket was some conkers, some marbles or some spice ( sweets) . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Wallace* Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 3 hours ago, Padders said: Flaming menace this technology, bin the lot ... Seems to me everybody is now staring into their phones.. What happened to the Clacker balls, Pogo Sticks, Skipping ropes, Rubiks cube, Scooters, Pea shooters, Catapults.. Lets turn the clock back......... Health and safety is what happened the irony is these kids will still be texting and surfing when they are driving cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chekhov Posted April 15, 2023 Author Share Posted April 15, 2023 3 hours ago, Padders said: Flaming menace this technology, bin the lot ... Seems to me everybody is now staring into their phones.. What happened to the Clacker balls, Pogo Sticks, Skipping ropes, Rubiks cube, Scooters, Pea shooters, Catapults.. Lets turn the clock back......... What happened to the Clacker balls, Pogo Sticks, Skipping ropes, Rubiks cube, Scooters, Pea shooters, Catapults, and talking and experiencing stuff together. Even just watching TV together is more sociable...... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chekhov Posted April 15, 2023 Author Share Posted April 15, 2023 4 hours ago, geared said: Should be some good parental control apps to keep a bit of an eye on what's going on. They'll all be on social media and messaging apps tho, it's life now. I hadn't even got around to worrying about what he was on, just the fact he's on anything focussed on that little soddin' screen to the exclusion of everything else (most significantly interacting with people around him) was bad enough..... He is just getting to the point where he is a bit interested in looking out of the window at the world around us during a train journey, once he gets a bleedin' phone that will be the end of that. Which will annoy me and depress me in equal measure....... BTW, can we buy a basic phone with a very small data allowance, such that he really needs to use WiFi if he wants to go on it for long periods (which we can turn off) ? Even better is it possible to still allow phone calls when the data runs out ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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