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I like the number of times I heard: “they’re going to be so good at computers!”.

I can not imagine getting my children a straight access to internet or a phone or allowing them on social media until after 16.

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That just delays the problem a couple years

There's pretty noticable differences in ability to self-regulate between people who had unfiltered access to computers and smartphones when growing up and not, beyond simply generational shifts.

I think the parent's assumption is that 16 is old enough for those problems to be largely avoided even if you gave them unfiltered access, which is what makes it not just kicking the can down the road.

Yes, it’s this.

I know a six-year-old with an iPhone. Any efforts to not do that is going to help.

I remember early internet and how it was on a teenager. Can’t imagine just signing up your kids for what it is now just because I won’t be able to keep them from it forever.

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