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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It starts because parents give smart phones WAY too early. If your kid has to have a phone, a flip phone is fine. [/quote]

Yes, exactly.

We have a college girl renting a room in our house, and she does not have a smart phone.  She has a laptop that her parents have loaded some extreme parental controls on.  There is no NEED for a young person -- or any of us, for that matter -- to get involved with the "social" aspects of internet usage.  And there is never a need for getting involved with internet trash, pornography, etc.  Unless you have some strange child, they are going to explore these things unless YOU, the parent, prevent it from happening.[/quote]

A college kid with extreme parental controls on her computer?  Honestly, that's rather horrifying.  Any parent who cannot trust their ADULT child to navigate the internet is a shit parent, sorry.[/quote]

I agree.  Those parents failed to teach skills to her LONG ago.  They may be delaying her exposure to the world but at some point, the training wheels have to come off and she won't be prepared to navigate society.[/quote]

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