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Calls for smartphone-free childhood grow in Britain (www.straitstimes.com)

submitted 7 months ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] scoobford@lemmy.zip 43 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Trying to legislate this is...fucking stupid.

You don't want your kids to have a smartphone? Fine. Don't buy one. Kids dont need phones, bur if you're worried about them being able to contact you, just get a dumbphone on amazon.

[–] brian@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

I don't think I like it, but there is an argument that kids without phones will be ostracized, or students will be expected to have access to phones in school, etc.

I know even in like 2012 or so some high school classes were expecting students to have phones for quick research and such. I wouldn't be surprised if that type of thing was moving into lower grades

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