[AnotherUnixGeek]

It is a very modern dilemma. Should you hand your child a smartphone, or keep them away from the devices as long as possible?

I'd strongly recommend not letting kids have smartphones at all. Buy them a simple flip phone capable of voice and SMS for communications and emergencies. None of the guys who wrote the IOS and Android operating systems and the first apps to run on them ever grew up with smartphones and they all somehow managed.

Today's kids are probably the most neurotic in history, and the toxic influences of social media apps and social gaming are why. They don't need to play Roblox, they don't need to see Mr. Beast videos, they don't need to watch the idiots of TikTok. Get them a flip phone for emergencies and tell them to go outside and play.

[MinorityRepublican]

Today's kids are probably the most neurotic in history, and the toxic influences of social media apps and social gaming are why. They don't need to play Roblox, they don't need to see Mr. Beast videos, they don't need to watch the idiots of TikTok. Get them a flip phone for emergencies and tell them to go outside and play.

Because their parents are stupid enough to give them smartphones without making them earn it themselves.