No, you do

time restricted access

Okay dude slow down

Only give them a device when you can supervise their access

^

Dont give them an iPad to keep in their room @ 6 years old

As they age and mature, you can loosen up time restrictions

and eventually let them go unsupervised

That's not realistic. Lets say a parent gives an ipad to a kid to watch a movie. They walk away and do the dishes. They are still watching the child, but the child can now go into what they aren't supposed to.

Lets say I take my kid somewhere. I want him to have a phone in case of an emergency. That phone can connect to the Internet. I can't stop him.

lmao

You guys are not being very nuanced

@Ranko blocked for trolling

im also lmaoing

quick mom is doing dishes

hit up /b/

okay, well I guess this conversation is over if you have no response

Give them a non smart phone?

for emergency access

Light phone

old nokia

flip flap phone, 30 bucks

emergency number and stuff

Doesnt take many braincells to figure out how to not give your 6 year old unsupervised access to the internet

@Countess So I'm supposed to buy them an old and a new phone so when I want to allow them to use the internet they can but when I don't want to allow them they get the old phone?

Not what im saying

The much more reasonable approach is to have slight censorship

Lmao

@Countess Yeah it is

You get a smart phone on your 15th birthday

dense as a star but not bright at all <:GWahreeVampySmug:369468206735425546>

not that hard

or when you demonstrate maturity

Im supposed to go out of my way and buy a $10 burner phone?

The 6 year-old was just an example btw, we're also talking about kids who are 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, all the way up to 17 and up

How dare you, easier to ban the N word from the internet

bad parenting, but big corporations and a nanny state will save the day hahaha

Also censoring things on the intenet isnt easy

@Countess Okay, so then what happens when he borrows his friend's phone. They will always find a way to get on the internet. You can't always control them.

Sure, but you can limit their access as much as possible

What you are arguing for in favor of total parental control is much scarier than slight regulation by social media sites

But it seems you would rather limit the internet?