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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no rules for my teen and technology other than I have access to everything and no Snapchat. She insists on going to bed at 9:30 every night and has stayed up later than that to text or Facetime ~1-2 times in the last year so idk maybe your parenting is the problem??[/quote]

OP here. I'll ignore the insult.

Your teen - and I say this earnestly - is very unique, IMO. Most 14-17 years olds do not have this kind of self-discipline, and in fact, psychiatrists and neurologists would all say their brains aren't yet fully capable of having that kind of self-discipline.

It will serve her well in the future.

But for the other 95% of teens who don't have what your daughter has, parents probably need to help them by setting boundaries.[/quote]

DP. None of us parents had access to smartphones in our teen years and plenty of us are fully addicted now in adulthood. I do kind of wonder how well restrictions will serve some of these kids in the future because the phones aren’t going anywhere. I’m not saying it’s not worth trying—mine at least had downtime in effect throughout their early teen years—but as soon as you lose the ability to control it, they’re on their own. If they have a propensity to get hooked, it’s going to happen eventually.[/quote]

We’ve fired 20-somethings who were not getting their work done but were always hovering over their phones or doing 10+ MS teams chat threads during the work day.

They stood out as incompetent and unproductive.
Oh well.

-Wash DC think tank.
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You give your employees MS Teams and you’re mad that they’re using it? It’s literally for chatting with coworkers.[/quote]

NP here. MS Teams is for chatting with coworkers about work, not for chatting about non-work-related things. Good for you, think tank, for firing your unproductive, phone-obsessed employees. I wish more companies would do the same.[/quote]

My last two jobs have had several non-work related Teams channels that staff were encouraged to participate in by leadership. Gardening, movies, fitness, etc. It’s supposed to be about culture or belonging or some nonsense.

Point being that it’s a lot like parents who give their kids these tools to communicate and they’re like “wait, no, we didn’t mean for you to use it THAT way!” If you have such a need to retain control, then just don’t give people these tools.[/quote]

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