fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhoodwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
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minus-squarelazynooblet@lazysoci.allinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoWho is buying the phones? The parents. So the parents buy their children a phone and then surprised Pikachu?
minus-squareFudoshin ️🏳️🌈@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoPeer pressure. Kids at school get the new greatest phone and tell their parents. Parents feel compelled to get it for their kids.
minus-squareIndiBrony@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoThat’s still on the parents. My little lad is 15 and never had his own phone until his tweens. Amusingly, he was older than me when I got my first phone back in the 90s. He never got bullied for not having a phone.
Who is buying the phones? The parents. So the parents buy their children a phone and then surprised Pikachu?
Peer pressure. Kids at school get the new greatest phone and tell their parents. Parents feel compelled to get it for their kids.
That’s still on the parents. My little lad is 15 and never had his own phone until his tweens. Amusingly, he was older than me when I got my first phone back in the 90s.
He never got bullied for not having a phone.