>then you should do the same too.
No. My phone is my alarm system. It is what wakes me up at 5:20am every morning to start things going. My wife uses hers for white noise.
No. My phone is my alarm system. It is what wakes me up at 5:20am every morning to start things going. My wife uses hers for white noise.
You’ll get to lead by example and perhaps even improve your sleep.
2.) I need phone anyway. And even old flip phones had alarm. Phone with alarm does not need to be fancy at all.
I prefer to set example of not buying all the available crap. That one is more important all I all.
I guess they decided to err on the side of not selling things rather than risk giving away a good deal
Like, I wonder if someone is running ML models on all of our sleeping habits based on phone alarms. Would be interesting to get some of the telemetry/tracking output from the clocks app.
That said, you can easily buy a simple analog alarm for a few bucks.
Writing as a parent who has had to deal with children staying up late at night, way after they should be sleeping, and looking up things on devices that I would consider inappropriate for both children and adults.
This sounds like something an addict would say. Not calling you out as an individual but instead highlighting the dangers of “I can stop anytime I want”.
Adults have myriad privileges that children do not. It is not unfair.
Surely you meant something else.
Try to see things from the perspective of a child. Or if that's too far away, a teenager. Didn't it always feel unfair to you that the adults could do all these things, were free to decide what they do and especially what they didn't have to do? Althewhile you were literally forced to go to school and could decide almost nothing? Especially later on, when you felt like an adult but just weren't on paper (not even talking too much about myself here, I had more freedom than most).
And that wouldn't have been completely unjustified. The way society forces teenagers, young adults even, into these states where they get no freedom about their lives is not something that's necessary natural, not necessary the right thing to do. I mean, for something easier, look at the utter harmless jokes of PC games that were censored back then for non-adults (and effectively even for adults, depending where you lived). That really was unfair and ridiculous. Heck, one of the most influential games I played back then was Deus Ex, would be seen as completely harmless today, it was rated 18+. Crazy.
Being completely unjust with things like phone usage can't help with all of that. Do as I say, not as I do can't be a great guideline for how to handle these things.
Children and teenagers should not be able to do some things that adults are allowed to do.
These are not mutually exclusive.
An 18+ rating on Deus Ex is dumb for a mature 16 year old. Cannabis should be legal for adults.
I'm also glad that 12 year olds can't drive cars. Even if I wished I could drive at 12.
In other words, the rules can be set up unfairly AND still have room for just differentiation between children and adults.
But exactly:
> In other words, the rules can be set up unfairly AND still have room for just differentiation between children and adults.
That's the point I wanted to make. The other that some of the rules just are unreasonable. And that the whole years of pseudo no responsibility (because that's never really true) and no freedom isn't as straightforwardly a fair deal as some comments here want it to be.
Kids don't understand life because they're kids, but they do intellectually develop to observe hypocrisy and contradictions. And if you spot one contradiction then the whole house of cards starts falling down. So our parents went out of their way to hide their vices from us. We were kids, we didn't understand at the time, but it was the thrill of finding something 'forbidden' that drove us to do it more than anything. The twisted little perverse curiosity of childhood. :)