[jamn]

I don't think it matters if you didn't have a cell phone as a kid, anyways. In the past, kids didn't have access to malaria vaccines. Does this mean kids aren't better off now that they have it?

I feel that using these stories to conclude that we shouldn't let kids have access to valuable equipment to be counterproductive. I would say it's much better to reason with them (as the author seems to have done).

My father bought me a computer when I was really young and told me to play with it all I wanted. He also told me not worry if I broke it as long as I was not being reckless. Thanks to that, I am now a graduate student in Computer Science.