Parents are teaming up to delay their children's first cell phone

https://english.elpais.com/society/2023-11-03/a-12-year-old-is-not-ready-why-thousands-of-parents-are-teaming-up-to-delay-their-childrens-first-cell-phone-use.html

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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V0lD@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

That's certainly an opinionated title

I don't see how not giving young kids access to rapid content social media is a bad thing

Lautrebeacon@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y

The "digital literacy" argument feels valid to me: don't bar them from cellphones forever, control their exposure and make it about learning rather than endless scrolling social media