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[quote=Anonymous]Working through the parental controls takes time and effort.  Most kids I see have no meaningful controls.  Parents just hand them a phone.  So I am guessing that parents use “kids could get around it” as a reason not to put the work in.  Yes, it’s true that kids can get around *some* controls (with time and effort and usually evidence you can see), but I don’t buy into the notion that you therefore hand them an iPhone and say good luck.   For example, our child was using phone too late in the evening despite Apple setting to shut it down. (Our child wasn’t changing the time zone but, for a while, the control wasn’t working.).   I knew this because I monitor when child was using phone.  Our solution was to remove phone physically from child at the appointed time.  It takes work.  Most parents find handing their child a phone is convenient FOR THEM; they can coordinate with kid, kid stops whining, etc.  And when convenience is a drive, the effort to work on parental controls and monitoring usage, etc, takes a backseat.  It’s pretty amazing to me that in our hyper educated affluent little bubble the kids are running pretty wild with phones and most parents seem to shrug it off.   [/quote]

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