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Girl Talk 13w
i think we really should talk about kids not having space to be kids anymore. its heartbreaking, and i hate to sound like my mom but…it really is these damn phones
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Anonymous 13w

It really is. These kids have no attention span, no empathy, no sense of how to connect or interact with people. It’s insane

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Anonymous 13w

Honestly? I don’t blame the phones entirely. Because malls are shutting down, and parks are no longer being built or maintained. There’s hardly anywhere for the kids to go and enjoy themselves. Skateparks don’t really exist. Where are they supposed to go after school? They can’t do anything. People have taken away every way that children can have fun and build connections together besides the phone. It’s their fault really.

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Anonymous 13w

As someone who only got a phone in college, I can confirm it’s the damn phones. I feel like an addict about to ruin my own life 💔

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Anonymous 13w

What did 1 say

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Anonymous 13w

I got my first phone at 17 and while I’ve always wasted the same amount of time the way i was doing it before was much more creative

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 13w

im chronically online but im an adult lmao and i didn’t get a smartphone until i was 15. hated that at the time but i now completely understand and am grateful bc good GOD

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13w

My fiancé and I have agreed our kids aren’t getting a smartphone until high school at the earliest. If they need a way to contact us before then they can get a flip phone. We both are worse off for getting a phone before then so we’d rather be strict than have them be introduced to things before they should

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 13w

very smart. especially with the pedos online…god knows even at 15 with strict parents i was on omegle and shit, interacting with literal predators. and theyve gotten even more sneaky in the last 8 years. not a damn chance!!

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Anonymous replying to -> strawberry_hair 13w

this is a fair point, and true for all of us. the elimination of “third places”, has resulted in surveys reporting that people are getting lonelier. and while an adult has the free will and finances to seek out community, a child who doesn’t have that provided for them is lonely on the internet which is a very dangerous thing to be

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13w

I think that’s why it’s important that when we become parents we encourage third spaces for our kids - without us. Whether it’s after school activities, or a parents’ house with the parent in a separate room, we need to find ways to let our children be kids, independently and safely. I hope i can be the parent that all my kids’ friends feel comfortable coming to if they have nowhere else to go

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 13w

I think they have you blocked.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 13w

They do that’s why I asked lolz

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