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The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
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this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2024
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Sure, it's the phones and not the fact the Earth is burning while all the people with power are too focused on growing their money piles by exploiting people.
People can't afford houses, kids and the planet might not have a future.
But sure, yeah, it's the phones.
"If we take away their phones, they can't know it's all on fire!"
Yeet
It might be beneficial for younger kids to not be aware of every global catastrophe, don't you think?
"Let us not prepare you for the world you're born into"
I said young kids, not all kids. Learn to read.
You actually said "Younger kids" . Younger is defined as "having lived or existed for only a short time."
Maybe you should learn about Reddings Postulates
Maybe you should learn about contextual communication. Most of us aren't pedantic English majors
You mean in the sense where overexposure to news makes someone generally paranoid, combined with the fact that a massive fire in colombia is not likely to enrich their perceptions or help them understand the world around them any better?
Think about it, without the kids having a way to fact check everything they would have to believe whatever they say, and that leads to my favourite problem solving method, propaganda!