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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This comes directly from an expert at Yale:

- if you gave your kid a phone between ages 8 to 12, you did it wrong and need to take the phone away.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/23/wait-as-long-as-possible-to-give-kids-a-phone-yale-psychology-expert.html[/quote]

[b]Oh, well if it’s from an “expert at Yale”. . [/b]. .

Sure it’s an opportunity cost to leave your kid on a phone for hours on end, but there are benefits.  Like knowing when and which door to pick my kid up after their several hours of sport and after school activities - where they aren’t glued to their phones.  There are no pay phones like back in our day.  Also, you will see the age and restriction level shift drastically depending on which “expert” is flapping their gob.  The only thing they can agree on is limit usage and monitor content.

no need to “take the phone away” unless you are just insecure and have a knee jerk reaction to every piece of advice.[/quote]
It’s actually common sense but people are so stupid they need to hear it from experts. Defending your choice to give your young kids phones because you can’t handle two seconds of ambiguity about where to pick them up is straight up weird. [/quote]

+1. And we need more academics weighing in on this because we need schools to get phones and tablets out of elementary schools, and since some parents will NEVER learn, we need education pedagogy to swing. That means I'll take all the Ivy league experts we can find to reinforce the extremely obvious idea that small children shouldn't be using personal screens because it's messing with their brain development (not just academics but social and emotional too).[/quote]

+100[/quote]

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