"Unprecedented" lmao what a clickbait hyperbole. Democrats have been wanting to move these bills for months
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Hard agree here, I couldn't imagine my 6 yo having a smartphone or tablet. When we have screen time, we watch TV, movies, or play video games together.
Smh the two are inextricable. Yet here you are judging all the parents who aren't giving their children smartphones...
Totally on the same page. My 6 year old son and I watch YouTube together sometimes, because there's lots of great content on there, both for entertainment and education. But he always sees the recommended videos and wants to watch something with a clickbait thumbnail next. Left his own devices, he'd quickly end up in a bad place unintentionally
Thinking even a simple majority of parents who give their 5 year olds smartphones are using any kind of parental control is a naive fantasy.
Separately, there were no 5 year olds watching the nightly news by themselves in their bedrooms, but regardless, scenes on TV news and TV as a whole are pale in comparison to what's available on the internet. Cable channels were absolutely vetted lmao...they were productions of large media conglomerates that had no interest in risking profits. Porn channels were rare, and required extra effort to access. We're not talking about 13 year olds staying up late to catch a boob on Cinemax
No? Not that I've heard
Is it bad for kids aged 5-7 to have smartphones? Is it worse than the pre-smartphone era when kids that age watched hours of TV instead?
It is absolutely worse. There are horrific things on the internet, and lots of fucked up ideas. Before smartphones there was cable, where you had 75 channels of often vapid but vetted content.
Having a smartphone or social media access by themselves are not an issue. Having unrestricted access to a smartphone as a young child is a serious issue, both in terms of the amount of time they potentially spend on it and the content they may come across.
It sounds like someone's ordering shit for dinner
The "endless shrimp" excuse seems like a marketing ploy. Doesn't hit as hard as "no one's coming to our restaurants to eat our shitty food."