Quote: LunarzMost young kids have tablets and laptops and smartphones and are swearing by the time they're out of kindergarten. I don't see any reason why a nine year old kid should have a smartphone. I think the idea is ludicrous to be perfectly honest with you. I didn't hate my parents for not giving me a phone til I was 16, and even then it was a ****ty flip phone. It's scary how much kids know now, at six kids have tablets, at 9 they are in relationships, at 12 they're swearing at the top of their lungs. Honestly, the only reason my phone is useful to me is so I can communicate when I need to, if I want to invite a friend over or get a ride home from my parents. Sure i use it for social media and stuff but I don't NEED it for that. Technology is great but it's taking over our minds and kinda turning a lot of people into mindless robots.
No, most are not, that's just generalizing. Kids that misbehave always get the spotlight when people talk about problems with the next generation, but they're not all the same, and they've never been in the majority.
And I agree. A nine-year-old shouldn't be able to access social media or the internet freely, but should a thirteen-year-old or a fourteen-year-old? It all depends on the child and their upbringing.
All I'm saying is that you can't keep them cloistered. They're going to learn about sex in some way or another, they're going to see the internet and the content it provides them and they're going to use it as well. In a modern society, you virtually cannot stop that.
Internet is a big part of people's lives nowadays, and it's only going to get bigger. What some would describe as becoming "mindless robots" is simply the rapid change in human social behavior affected by the internet. It's not turning us into something inferior, we're getting accustomed to it.
And change has always been there, in the youngest of us. When people grow up they always try to hold on to the world as they first knew it, as if it was somehow inherently "better", but sooner or later they're going to have to admit that things have changed.
What you could do instead of withholding your future child's means of social ineraction from him/her, is to teach him/her to interact responsibly. Teach your child good values and they will handle the world around them according to those values.