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You sit at a desktop in the kitchen to use the computer. If you have shown yourself to be responsible you know your password.
The wifi shuts off at bedtime.
My 11-12-13 year old kids have Apple Watches for communication purposes but no smartphones. These are charged all together in a locked pantry at night.
That sounds pretty draconian.
A shared computer and no Internet when they are supposed to be sleeping is draconian?
Isn't this how us kids in the 1990's and 2000s grew up? (Minus the phone because we didn't have them, or just a flip phone)
Calling it draconian to not be able to stay up all night on the internet sounds kind of like an iPad kid as a teenager lol
Yep. And even then, our desktop computer was upstairs - which was out of the way, nothing up there except my sister's bedroom and a living room that wasn't really used - so arguably that was too isolated lol. We weren't allowed laptops until we finished high school! Even my friend who did have a laptop wasn't allowed it in her bedroom.
The internet was also restricted to go off at 9pm because I was staying up on msn and Myspace all night otherwise ๐
It's not. No devices at night is super normal for kids who haven't learned to regulate yet. It's maybe a bit tighter than I would choose, but I still think it's a fair balance at that age.
You sound very twelve.
It only sounds draconian compared to the completely unsupervised access that I think most of us grew up with.
I had porn at 13. Shock videos shortly after. 4chan at 16. Outside of being able to discover my own media tastes through piracy and late night binges, I struggle to identify a lot of good that came of my unfettered access.