Good for them. If it works, it will have to be widely adopted. I can say that phones have taken a degree of the joy out of parenting when there are no societal boundaries.
Spanish parents not realising they can already ban their children from having cell phones at any time they want and on whatever terms they want
It’s not simple, and the fact that you are trying to make it sound simple is confusing at best.
Even if a very small percentage of teens has a phone, the social pressure for all to have it becomes unbearable.
Plus things like marketing phones to children and teens would also be banned if a law like that were to come into effect.
One of the best things you can teach you children is to ignore social pressure.
I remember wanting some nike shoes because of social pressure and my mom was like: no, lol.
I somehow survived it just fine.
It’s amazing that you’re such an illuminated parent, and no doubt a blessed human being who doesn’t suffer social pressure, but your point is meaningless/harmful as it ignores the reality that most humans and parents suffer from social pressure.
So basically ban cellphones for every other kid so mine doesn’t feel pressured to have one?
How would that even work?
the social pressure for all to have it becomes unbearable.
So what? Humans are social animals. We live in societies. Having to adapt fit int is part of our nature. Obviously ignoring your peers preferred method of communication doesn’t work and it’s a good thing it doesn’t because communication is the fabric of society. You could as well decide to make up your own language.
That said, individuality needs to be protected and peer pressure needs to kept in check. But you do that via parenting, teaching and maybe banning advertising aimed at minors. Not by fighting windmills.
My first instinct was to decry this as a reactionary move.
But anyone that has been a teenager knows that a significant portion of teenagers are absolute sociopathic assholes. That’s how it is, and how it’s been for a long time. And while I wouldn’t blame the teenagers for this, we should not pretend otherwise.
Limiting the way they can project this onto each other seems like a reasonable thing to do for the sake of mental and physical health.
Although I don’t think banning the devices would work at all, that’s way too easy to circumvent.
They mean at schools?.. right? 🙄
Absolute idiots.
