| I'm not / won't be a parent, so please take this with a grain of salt and not as an offense to your or anyone elses parenting. I think the fact many of you have deeply thought about the topic is amazing, but what I wonder is if you, by restricting devices so heavily (and it's seemingly only about tables and smartphones), also take away any chance at kids getting proficient with computers? Like, you know, the knowledge people here have: How computers work, hardware, programming. Maybe it's just not mentioned here, but I see a lot about avoiding social media - which is fine, I get it - and not a lot about teaching kids how technology works. When I was a kid, I sat at a computer (with my dad) with 3 and the internet starting at 5 or 6. That said, the internet was very different in the 2000s. It lead to the current hobbies I have and I'm so happy I've had that chance. I, for example, experimented with my own phpMyBB forums at 14 because forums where cool back then. I've seen reports of more and more younger people having no idea what a file system even is because they have never seen one before because they mainly grow up on tablets, and now they seem to have less of a chance to learn about tech at all because they've barely seen any tech - except smart devices - until they're teenagers. Which, again, I understand completely. There are dangers online nowadays and I'd want to protect my kids, as well, but while reading all your posts, I felt a bit sad because it also felt like it may take something away, too. Not an easy problem to solve. How does the crowd here see this? |