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by tzamora
1722 days ago
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Over stimulation is the problem. You think you can drink one beer or two, but at the end you can't control the need to drink a third more. You know that you can only have one or two cigarrete a day but at the end you can't.
Sometimes handling addiction is not about reasoning. And is even worse if you are a kid which don't have the maturity to understand addiction. I think the same about the parent post. Teach them about addiction, explain to them "you see this phone? You will be addicted by it, so until you are an adult I will protect you from this." |
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It is interesting to speculate of what will be the end result in terms of learned behaviors. I was born without computers near me so I and I became obsessed with them as I was starting teenage years. Because of this, I can handle excessive boredom and I can find something amusing for myself without relying on someone force feeding me content they deem appropriate for me. I am not sure future adults will be able to sit still without a screen.
To be fair, my parents were about as worried as I am today, but they still purchased Pentium 120, which I promptly OC'ed and let me and my siblings to go nuts for a while until we we overboard ( I forgot the details now, but dad took PC to his shop after that incident and they couldn't just password protect it, because by then we learned how to remove password in BIOS and rely on 'keys pressed marked' trick to guess it ). It is not that different now. The face of it changed though.
Point is.. kids are kids. They don't understand addiction. Best you can do is to attempt to explain it. Even knowing that, I am still planning to severely limit phone use.