Do Children Need A Mobile

[cuttsie 1,089]

16 minutes ago, Isabellahow said:

It's 2022, many useful things are already digital and you can keep them in your phone, it's more a necessity rather then a caprice. Kids need to have their phone, I can contact them whenever I need or want, this is why I am buying this particular phone for my kid. There are tons of ways to restrict kids access to browsers, youtube videos games and other stuff during lessons. It's not necessary to take the phone away from kids during school, I need to be informed how my kid feels and if he have a problem or any other thing that should be shared with me firstly, I should know about it. Don't understand this trend to take phone from kids in school

Long summer days , out to play early morning , stick of rhubarb and sugar , apples scrimped for dinner , walking for miles and miles or fields hills and dales , walk in door at 5  6 or 7 pm and mam says "Hello love had a good day " then Woolf tea down and out again before it gets to dark , 

What ever has happened .

Edited January 14, 2022 by cuttsie

[L00b 441]

1 hour ago, cuttsie said:

Long summer days , out to play early morning , stick of rhubarb and sugar , apples scrimped for dinner , walking for miles and miles or fields hills and dales , walk in door at 5  6 or 7 pm and mam says "Hello love had a good day " then Woolf tea down and out again before it gets to dark , 

What ever has happened .

Life happened.
 

Ask your alter ago youth of a 100 years earlier still, what their “long summer days” were like. Up at crack of dawn, clean the pig sty, feed the chickens, harvest all day long until dusk, bowl of soup, bed.

[El Cid 212]

18 minutes ago, L00b said:

Life happened.
 

Ask your alter ago youth of a 100 years earlier still, what their “long summer days” were like. Up at crack of dawn, clean the pig sty, feed the chickens, harvest all day long until dusk, bowl of soup, bed.

With mental health issues being much more common, we should ask ourselves why that is happening.

We are much more wealthy than we were 50 years ago. That does make todays children different from the children 50 years ago.

There may be 'tons of ways to restrict kids access' but do they work and how many parents know enough to be able to acheive a few hours internet free?

Recent studies indicate 90 percent of teens have viewed porn online, and 10 percent admit to daily use. I recall seeing other peoples porn magazines when I was younger, does porn enlighten children or help those taking part earn a few quid and become good tax paying citizens?

Not in my opinion.

 

[L00b 441]

Not sure why you quoted me there, as there is nothing in my post to hang your argument on.

 

But well.

 

So, is your post an argument towards preventing kids from having mobiles, due to their potential for inducing mental health issues? Or more of a rant against the occasional misuse of mobiles by kids?

 

Because under-age porn viewing is absolutely not restricted to mobiles. Tablets, PCs, consoles…heck, anything that can connect to the web and run a browser, is just as relevant.

 

Parenting is the issue, here, not technology. Your own reference to skin mags in years gone by, before the internet was ever a thing, is evidence of the very fact. Kids will be kids, and will be curious about everything including sex. That’s just human (heck, ‘animal’ even) nature 🙂

 

The responsibility to parameterise a phone, tablet, PC (etc) for hindering access to porn content is a parental responsibility. No different to hiding skin mags well in years gone by, just more high tech, because Life(TM).

 

And if the parent(s) don’t know how, educating themselves to do it, and/or finding someone else trustworthy to do it for them, is just as much part of that parental responsibility.

Edited January 14, 2022 by L00b

[spilldig 185]

On 12/01/2022 at 12:50, PRESLEY said:

Your lucky it was intact, BT stopped coming to repair the one at end our street after the kids blew it up one bonfire night. Madness. 

No vandalism back then.

[El Cid 212]

2 minutes ago, L00b said:

Because under-age porn viewing is absolutely not restricted to mobiles. Tablets, PCs, consoles…heck, anything that can connect to the web and run a browser, is just as relevant.

 

Parenting is the issue, here, not technology. Your own reference to skin mags in years gone by, before the internet was ever a thing, is evidence of the very fact. Kids will be kids, and will be curious about everything including sex. That’s just human (heck, ‘animal’ even) nature 🙂

I dont think that we should just accept that people of all ages view online porn, we should accept its a difficult problem and chip away at the problem.

The ex-education MP, Gavin Wiliams did a story on banning mobiles in schools, it may not be practical, but schools should be supported, otherwise lessons will be disrupted by beeping and ringing.

Children and young adults who are seriously addicted to computer games will now be able to get help on the NHS after the launch of country’s first specialist clinic.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/2019/10/children-treated-for-computer-gaming-addiction-under-nhs-long-term-plan/

 

We cannot ban mobiles and gaming, just like we cannot ban food or alcohol; we do ban some drugs, but that just seems to lead to more criminallity.

 

[spilldig 185]

2 hours ago, cuttsie said:

Long summer days , out to play early morning , stick of rhubarb and sugar , apples scrimped for dinner , walking for miles and miles or fields hills and dales , walk in door at 5  6 or 7 pm and mam says "Hello love had a good day " then Woolf tea down and out again before it gets to dark , 

What ever has happened .

I remember it well cuttsie. And no paedophiles either. We had to buy our own sweets.

[Padders 2,840]

4 hours ago, cuttsie said:

Long summer days , out to play early morning , stick of rhubarb and sugar , apples scrimped for dinner , walking for miles and miles or fields hills and dales , walk in door at 5  6 or 7 pm and mam says "Hello love had a good day " then Woolf tea down and out again before it gets to dark , 

What ever has happened .

Nah den Cuttsie,

I'll siddi Sunday Morning at 7am at your drum......

We'll have a walk on't wood bottom, do a spot of birds nesting, then in tu woods...

I know where there's a death swing, so we'll start of on that..

Then a bit of Dam building, look for some frog spawn, and if were lucky we might find some newts..

I also know a good Conker tree, I'll challenge thi to a game of Conker's.

Bring a container wi thi, cus there's some massive Blackberry's on display, thi missis can make thi a Apple and Blackberry pie wi dem Apples thas scrumped.

Tha'll also need a good Bowie knife to carve thi monica on't trees.

Don't worry if it lags it down, we'll build a den, and if tha feels the need to do a 💩 there is plenty of giant size dock leaves available.

(who needs Andrex)

At 3-30pm the Thames-Clyde express thunders through, make sure you've got a couple of 1d to place on the line, these will be transformed into bin lids.

Rhubarb and sugar is of the menu, so thi missis is doing thi some nice crusty bread and jam sandwich's.

Should be a good day out and all for nowt.

I'll siddi.

[hackey lad 3,937]

9 hours ago, L00b said:

Life happened.
 

Ask your alter ago youth of a 100 years earlier still, what their “long summer days” were like. Up at crack of dawn, clean the pig sty, feed the chickens, harvest all day long until dusk, bowl of soup, bed.

Bowl of soup ,  luxury 

[cuttsie 1,089]

7 hours ago, spilldig said:

I remember it well cuttsie. And no paedophiles either. We had to buy our own sweets.

"Can you take one in mester please" was a plea to adults at the local Cinema when the film showing was A category , meaning kids under 15 (thats when work started ) could not go in unless accompanied by an adult . no probs just hand your 7 or 9 pence or and any one would take you in ,The only dodgy bloke around us was a priest who we all avoided like the plague . 

[cuttsie 1,089]

6 hours ago, Padders said:

Nah den Cuttsie,

I'll siddi Sunday Morning at 7am at your drum......

We'll have a walk on't wood bottom, do a spot of birds nesting, then in tu woods...

I know where there's a death swing, so we'll start of on that..

Then a bit of Dam building, look for some frog spawn, and if were lucky we might find some newts..

I also know a good Conker tree, I'll challenge thi to a game of Conker's.

Bring a container wi thi, cus there's some massive Blackberry's on display, thi missis can make thi a Apple and Blackberry pie wi dem Apples thas scrumped.

Tha'll also need a good Bowie knife to carve thi monica on't trees.

Don't worry if it lags it down, we'll build a den, and if tha feels the need to do a 💩 there is plenty of giant size dock leaves available.

(who needs Andrex)

At 3-30pm the Thames-Clyde express thunders through, make sure you've got a couple of 1d to place on the line, these will be transformed into bin lids.

Rhubarb and sugar is of the menu, so thi missis is doing thi some nice crusty bread and jam sandwich's.

Should be a good day out and all for nowt.

I'll siddi.

Goodun Padders , People on these pages do not get what we are saying , The way kids are monicuddled ? today is daft , 

 

The scene outside our local school near us has be seen to be believed , hundreds of cars , Chelsie tractors , engines running , mobile phones on full blast , all this when half hour walk is the maximum in the catchment area .

 

Then school leaving at 17 years old , now almost a thing of the past as any one can go to University  now  ,its just a matter of taking exams ,(answer to questions on the net ) ( I know adults who have done it ).  

So three or four years at Uni then what ? A gap year just to rest up ready to start a job that the qualifications meet , The only thing is the kids ????? who are now early twenty's often find that the only ones going are at Aldie or call centres ,that is when they realise that little Jimmy down the road who left school at 17 and started as an apprentice plumber or bricki is riding around in a brand new car and takes holidays in far of places .

 

Answers on post card , remember them .

 

 

Edited January 14, 2022 by cuttsie

[Anna B 1,401]

13 hours ago, El Cid said:

With mental health issues being much more common, we should ask ourselves why that is happening.

We are much more wealthy than we were 50 years ago. That does make todays children different from the children 50 years ago.

There may be 'tons of ways to restrict kids access' but do they work and how many parents know enough to be able to acheive a few hours internet free?

Recent studies indicate 90 percent of teens have viewed porn online, and 10 percent admit to daily use. I recall seeing other peoples porn magazines when I was younger, does porn enlighten children or help those taking part earn a few quid and become good tax paying citizens?

Not in my opinion.

 

According Professor Susan Fielding, Neurologist, use of the internet and mobile phones is actually changing the way kid's brains are hard wired. She likens this to evolutionary change, but worries that it is not based on natural environmentmental change and can therefore possibly be harmful to still developing brains making them more prone to things like addiction.

 

It has also cut concentration span (in Japan children's attention span is down to 20 minutes at most, and therefore that is the length of average lessons in Japanese schools.) They also no longer have the concentration or memory to read full length books, hence the rise of the shortened 'Graphic novel.'  

 

We are all becoming accustomed to relying on computers in our everyday life, but soon youngsters will be physically unable to do without them.  

Edited January 14, 2022 by Anna B