• IndiBrony@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • ChexMax@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      He may not have been bullied, but he may have missed out on bonding and closeness that his peers enjoyed. There was a study that showed life is way better for kids if they don’t have a phone, but only if their peers also don’t have phones

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        9 months ago

        This fact alone makes me conflicted about this. I don’t want my kids to walk around having phones from an early age, but I know first hand that being excluded as a kid is not a enjoyable experience. And kids are vicious creatures to each other too.

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      9 months ago

      All I never had was a Gameboy I didn’t get an actual phone until I was in high school.

      It had polyphonic ringtones and an IR blaster, it was the business.

    • Alex@feddit.ro
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      9 months ago

      lol people calling 15-year-olds “little lads” makes me feel like a baby

      (i’m 13 :/)