Colorado Girl, 12, Accused of Twice Attempting to Poison Mother Who Took Away Her iPhone

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[Travis McGee]

Giving a pre-teen a smart phone is like giving them crack or heroin.

What could possibly go wrong with turning a pre-teen into an obsessed addict?

[Travis McGee]

Not only are they brain crack, they prevent normal neurological development. Instead of learning how to navigate the world with the senses, kids's brains are being developed inward inside of apps and computer program architecture.

These kids cannot find their way across town without a voice telling them when to turn. The mental city map does not exist in their brain. That critical stage in their mental development never happens. We are raising a generation that will be rendered as helpless as infants if and when the power goes out and the gadgets become an ounce of plastic trash.

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[ExCTCitizen]

Time for military school for little Suzie...either that or have her arrested for attemped murder...

[oh8eleven]

Not only are they brain crack, they prevent normal neurological development.

[Charles Martel]

Not only are these kids using smartphones as crutches for simple tasks, the damned things now contain their entire social lives. Those old sci-fi stories about people vegetating while the machines take over were pretty darned close to the mark.

[Popman]

Didn’t mom know her little darling was “entitled” to her phone...

How dare she not allow her precious child to have social interaction on social media...

How in the world would she know what the kardastions are up too with the latest fashion and soft porn videos...

The nerve of mom...

[Popman]

-——These kids cannot find their way across town without a voice telling them when to turn. -——

Very true... My youngest son last girlfriend drove to school and back home. everyday by her navigation system....

You would think after a few days... Your brain would remember how to get there...

I asked her why.... She told me she was afraid of getting lost....

I kid you not....

[Farmer Dean]

She looks like an alien/human hybrid.They appear from time to time.

[Travis McGee]

A decade or so back when my kids were under ten, we used to go on long long walks from our house. I always used these opportunities to impress natural navigation upon them: sun, landmarks, slope of hills, streams we crossed and where they went, and of course the primary directions of the main roads, etc.

From about a mile out on the way home, I’d ask one of them to navigate us back home, just to challenge their minds.

God help us if the power goes out. People will starve while waiting to be saved by the govt, helpless as lambs.

[Rodamala]

Kids getting grounded in the 1950's vs. today! Vine

[CatherineofAragon]

"Gee, my observation is just the opposite. Children who are whipped and cruelly punished are the ones likely to grow up to be psychopaths."

Oh, spare me! When I was a kid (in the 70s), I knew darned well that if I misbehaved, I would get a switching or a spanking. So did every other kid I knew. Somehow we all survived it, and it didn't screw us up.

[CatherineofAragon]

BTW, who washes glasses in bleach?

[papertyger]

Don’t confuse bad parenting with the incidental artifacts.

My kid has had an ITouch since age two. She’s now in kindergarten and writes, calculates, and demonstrates improvisational thinking better than her mother and I did by the second grade.

Sure, she could be a vidiot if we made video her only meaningful interaction, but we don’t.

In today’s context, criticism of the computer interface is like criticizing paper and ink two hundred years ago.

[Politicalkiddo]

Exactly.

[Popman]

God help us if the power goes out. People will starve while waiting to be saved by the govt, helpless as lambs.

I assume we are about the same age...grew up before the internet and "devices" that ran our lives, we did boy scouts, camping, hunting and spent the vast majority of our youth either in school or outside...

I don't recall ever getting lost except when a scout master got us lost...

Ask almost any person under the age of 30 what direction they are standing at any moment and you get a deer in the headlight look...

It might take me few moments to orient myself...but my inner compass knows where I am at all times...in relationship to N,E,W,S

[A_perfect_lady]

A lot of them also have no capacity to entertain themselves. Take their toys away and they start staring desperately at each other, like, "Say something! Do something! Entertain me!"

If they could take a tour of my childhood, they would just die. I grew up on a small farm with my grandparents. My toys were books, marbles, cards, blocks, drawing paper, a sandbox, a swing, a bike, a field full of rocks, a corn-crib full of corn, some apple trees, the woods, the river, wildflowers, bales of hay...

We were poor but I look back and feel so, so lucky.

[Travis McGee]

Good luck.

[goat granny]

I am in my 70’s and still get lost...we were camping (5 kids) and the kids took off playing..I got worried about them getting lost...hubby said they will get back OK. I said no they wouldn't...so I took my husky and went to look for them, probably down by the falls...took note of landmarks as I went through the woods, until I heard voices and the falls...kids were not there..when I turned around to go back to the campsite, all the landmarks I noted were not seen...going back, the landmarks I took note of were not seen. Different going back then heading out...Got concerned about being lost in the woods, I figured my dog would know the way back even if I didn't..gave him his head and off we went..he got me back to the campgrounds, but we came out of the woods in a different way then we went in...
When we got to our campsite, hubby was sitting outside the camper and all 5 kids were in the camper playing games...Hubby was right, the kids found their way back and only my dog got me back.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

See, crap like this didn’t happen when parents whipped their kids.

Lizzy Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks
And when she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one.

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