How Apple's Screen Time is outsmarted by kids, frustrating parents

Re:How Apple's Screen Time is outsmarted by kids, frustratin... by matwood on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @06:54PM (#21264897)

All those problems are solved by taking the phone away. We got a cordless phone when I was a kid (yeah I'm old), and it didn't take long before every night my mom or dad came around and made sure the phone was on the base.

I also played a lot of video games, and if I played more than a couple of hours in a row my dad would come and just unplug the Nintendo. Drove me nuts (saved games on those old cartridges were very finicky), but it made me go outside.

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Re:How Apple's Screen Time is outsmarted by kids, frustratin... by mindgam3 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:14PM (#21265093)

See, I agree with this mentality. I would actually respect Apple a lot if they had just come out and told parents to "just take the phone away" rather than launching a half implemented feature and then forgetting about it.

Unfortunately there's no way that would ever happen. Even if Apple PR would ever allow such a statement to be made, which it wouldn't, requiring parents to do some actual parenting might provoke major unrest.

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