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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually do think it matters what the other parents are doing. If we (parents) could all agree to age gate things like cell phones and social media (which I think is the bigger worry in regards to a smart phone), all of our children would be better off. I think 8th grade is reasonable for a phone that is not connected to the internet. But no social media until at least 16 - I hope by the time my kids are that age it is the law![/quote]

This is the real world. I hate social media but I am a realist. Don’t you remember being 16? Sex, drugs and RnR everywhere yet most of us grew up to be responsible members of our communities. Forbidding social media until 16 will never work en masse and will not protect kids from exploitation at an older age.[/quote]
You are completely ignoring the reality of social media, the internet, phone addiction and developing brains. 
Sure, kids went crazy for the Beatles in the 60s. Punk rock in the 80s. Tamagochis and Beanie babies in the 90s. BUT and there is a big BUT here! You had to interact with the world to be crazed. 60s went to shops to buy records, listened to the radio, talked with other people, went to dances. Etc etc etc.

This is completely isolation and addictive behavior.

Also, my 2nd grader was just talked to about "group chats" because there are kids in his class with their own phones and/or IPads at home with apparently no oversight. I don't care how involved you are in their sports and STEM fair activities. If you give your kid unrestricted access to the internet and group chats and all that, you are an idiot. Lazy. Ineffectual. [/quote]

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