[Technology] How Does This Little Kidz Smartphone Addiction Resolve Itself?

[schmunk]

Ok. I'll watch it on the phone later.

...only if you can wrestle it from your 10 year old.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Ok. I'll watch it on the phone later.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

It’s massively reduced teenage pregnancy. A fact not missed by the medical profession.

 

[Icy Gull]

05.50 in the morning and you’re making nearly your 53,000th post on a football forum to make a point about people being hooked on devices.

Harsh but good point, well made

Sadly, well maybe not that sadly I am not responsible for my kids behaviour any more! In my weak defence this is only one of three forums I post on and this is my go to site when I get up.

I have grandkids who do not use phones or ipads when we are looking after them though, and nor do I when with them.

I rest my defence

 

[Bold Seagull]

Harsh but good point, well made

Sadly, well maybe not that sadly I am not responsible for my kids behaviour any more! In my weak defence this is only one of three forums I post on and this is my go to site when I get up.

I'm only kidding! But it's tough to have a definitive behaviour pattern for devices. As an example, I manage my daughter's football team, am chairman of my son's youth football club (previously managed his older brother's team), and also fit in cycling with the older son's cycling club. All of these outdoor sporting activities are done through the organisational brilliance of my device. FA Whole Game App, Whatsapp groups etc. Training drills and schedules on coaching apps; my device use is inextricably linked to being able to do so much with my 3 kids. There are coaches in youth football now doing drillsand sessions you might have only seen in professional clubs 20 years ago.

My daughter at 15 is doing her GCSEs shortly, the power of her revision through her device is incredible. The school have set up videoed experiments from science, practice tutorials. YouTube is full of brilliant videos talking you through maths problems, how to structure answers etc. The knowledge at their finger tips is incredible. I have a maths a-level myself, but have long forgotten much of the stuff, however sitting through some of these tutorial's with her we can work it out, it ends up being fun.

I appreciate the point about kids being on them too much, and that is very true, but there are also many positives.

It makes me reflect of the TV programme always on in my youth "Why Don't You". We used to tune in and watch a show telling us watching TV was boring. Brilliant.

 

[Icy Gull]

I'm only kidding! But it's tough to have a definitive behaviour pattern for devices. As an example, I manage my daughter's football team, am chairman of my son's youth football club (previously managed his older brother's team), and also fit in cycling with the older son's cycling club. All of these outdoor sporting activities are done through the organisational brilliance of my device. FA Whole Game App, Whatsapp groups etc. Training drills and schedules on coaching apps; my device use is inextricably linked to being able to do so much with my 3 kids. There are coaches in youth football now doing drillsand sessions you might have only seen in professional clubs 20 years ago.

My daughter at 15 is doing her GCSEs shortly, the power of her revision through her device is incredible. The school have set up videoed experiments from science, practice tutorials. YouTube is full of brilliant videos talking you through maths problems, how to structure answers etc. The knowledge at their finger tips is incredible. I have a maths a-level myself, but have long forgotten much of the stuff, however sitting through some of these tutorial's with her we can work it out, it ends up being fun.

I appreciate the point about kids being on them too much, and that is very true, but there are also many positives.

It makes me reflect of the TV programme always on in my youth "Why Don't You". We used to tune in and watch a show telling us watching TV was boring. Brilliant.

Big difference to giving your very young kids your iphone or tablet at the dining room table, around the house all day or in a restaurant to avoid having to involve them in conversation/interaction and let you have a nice peaceful meal or relax.

I’ll leave it at that as I am very old school re parenting, things change

 

[Bold Seagull]

Big difference to giving your very young kids your iphone or tablet at the dining room table, around the house all day or in a restaurant to avoid having to involve them in conversation/interaction and let you have a nice peaceful meal or relax.

I’ll leave it at that as I am very old school re parenting, things change

Can't disagree with that. Got to be a balance hasn't it. Don't see that as particularly old fashioned.

 

[LlcoolJ]

It is until little Johnnie stabs you for denying his human rights ie some schools are rougher than others and I’m not sure I’d want to be taking crack away from the addicts!!

It's a school of around 1900 kids in Sheffield. Not exactly Eton. The rule works fine.

 

[RossyG]

Kids not wanting to watch TV is a good thing in my opinion. I wish I’d watched less at the time. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been allowed the luxury of choice in that regard. A friend of my brother’s didn’t have a telly in his house. We pitied him, but he read books and comics, listened to music, and went to scouts and the youth club and cinema each week, played football (impromptu after school and as part of an organised team), rugby, cricket, tennis... I don’t pity him now, wherever he is; I’m actually quite jealous in hindsight. What was I doing when he was doing this? Watching Lippy the Lion or Potter’s Picture Palace... imagine if I’d have missed out on that!

But swapping TV for Youtube isn’t a huge advance in that regard.

As for kids with phones... A smartphone cost a couple of hundred quid and kids don’t have any money, so if they’re not bought one they don’t have one. It’s entirely up to the parents.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

New technologies and usage that I will at my age never understand but recognise that this is their future and kids will be better off in, rather than out. Just need to try and educate them about trolls and that they shouldn’t believe all they see and hear because their phones are telling them.
We were worried about a year or so ago about one of the grandkids that spent all his waking hours on Fortnite. He eventually got fed up with it and now plays basketball non stop. It’s usually a phase.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Agree with most of what [MENTION=30847]Megazone[/MENTION] says.

My boy is 1 and there's no way he's going anywhere near a phone or tablet in the next couple of years, I just don't see any benefit at that age. We don't use ours in front of him as much as possible so he's not pining for it.
Babies and toddlers need to develop imagination, they need to learn to amuse themselves when they're bored, they need to learn to socialise and communicate, they need to learn motor skills. They're not doing any of that following a sprite around a screen.
As soon as he's walking we're going out every day to a park with a ball.

 

[LamieRobertson]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51358192

For those who didn’t watch ITV news

 

[portlock seagull]

It's a school of around 1900 kids in Sheffield. Not exactly Eton. The rule works fine.

Good in works some places but it never stands a chance of being universally adopted because the kids would frankly tell you to **** off, so would their parents and probably their pimps too. As said, you just can’t impose such rules in certain schools.

 

[Wozza]

If kids weren't into tech we wouldn't have gold like this....

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2020/02/0...3H5KkNkDqIQ3sJujBZDEhY1g8UaU_xyknWl-1-8fltnHU

 

[Megazone]

Just watched this. Kids beware.

 

[Icy Gull]

Just watched this. Kids beware.

Thanks for posting the video, somehow this guys notoriety had completely passed me by. Very interesting watch.

 

[Megazone]