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To: bgill
No, smartphones are tools. It is the parents who are messing up the kids by using smartphones as babysitters and entertainment 24/7.

Exactly. Since when do FReepers "blame the gun?"

41 posted on 03/22/2015 8:38:39 AM PDT by papertyger (I didn't leave my party: my party betrayed me.)
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To: papertyger

“No, smartphones are tools. It is the parents who are messing up the kids by using smartphones as babysitters and entertainment 24/7.”

“Exactly. Since when do FReepers “blame the gun?” “

There’s an age at which you let your kids handle guns without special supervision. And there’s an age at which you don’t. (and that age probably varies from kid to kid, and family to family).

I think that’s all the author of the original article is saying here - until a kid hits an appropriate age - you can decide what that is - you don’t turn them loose 24 hours a day with their own smartphone. Her experience suggests 14 or 15 is too young for unbridled smartphone access - I suspect for most kids she’s probably right.


53 posted on 03/22/2015 10:15:33 AM PDT by Stosh
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