[jrflowers]

I don’t think people are buying this fun novelty landline phone because they haven’t heard of parental controls

[eloisant]

As another commenter said, the problem with parental controls on a smartphone is your kid constantly nagging you to approve installation of one more app, or extend their daily limit "just for today" (again).

With a device that's not a smartphone, you don't have this problem.

[jrflowers]

I know as a kid I would have hated that and put a lot of effort into circumventing it.