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Re:Parents in Ireland town to voluntarily ban smartphones fo... by throwaway2729 on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:08AM (#36192141)
We've decided to wait till 10th grade to give our kid a smartphone. We might get a dumb phone sooner than that if they need to call us. It's easy to see kids getting addicted to any type of screen - TV, laptops, etc. Having a phone with them all the time seems like a terrible idea.
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Re:Parents in Ireland town to voluntarily ban smartphones fo... by ramraj07 on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:46AM (#36192383)
You could easily give them a basic iPhone with full lockdown on every app with just basic communication and internet browsing abilities.. why not that option?
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Re:Parents in Ireland town to voluntarily ban smartphones fo... by camhart on Monday June 05, 2023 @01:11AM (#36192581)
iOS screen time/parental controls are a joke to bypass. To be clear I'm not aruging that parental controls are bad or not worth it--I'm arguing that Apple's built in mechanisms fail far too easily.

https://protectyoungeyes.com/12-ingenious-screen-time-hacks-...

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Re:Parents in Ireland town to voluntarily ban smartphones fo... by antonyt on Monday June 05, 2023 @02:59PM (#36201408)
Why spend a few hundred dollars to turn an iPhone into a $50 phone? Feature phones give you communication and basic (if often painful) internet browsing abilities.
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