I used to compare the drawbacks of no smartphones for kids to growing up in a house with no or limited TV, until my mother emailed to complain with a point that has really stayed with me, which is that at least she was also willing to do without a TV.
Said it before, but to reiterate:
"Ban social media for under 16s"
"internet-free phones for children"
These ideas may have worked 20 years ago, but that horse bolted so long ago, it's galloped around the planet and is now approaching the stable from the opposite direction
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the three way split in the playground:
1) not allowed to watch ITV because it was common
2) not allowed to watch BBC because it was posh
3) only allowed to watch S4C
Classwar in our playground was knowing quotes from new episodes shown on Sky vs being 3-4 years behind on BBC 2.
Then The Simpsons declined rapidly and Channel 4 took over the batch of episodes that were good.
"They got Jeremy Irons to voice a dish rag? Oh no good sir, you just have suffered some sort of head injury, or perhaps be having a stroke. Let's get you to the hospital."
Type (1) for me. Then as an adult I ended up working for TTTV, Yorkshire TV and Granada before Granada ate them all to turn into ITV. Still not sure my mum was wrong TBH.
See had you grown up in lympstone you’d have had the 2 tiers above 1): a) don’t own a TV so have to go to neighbours to watch Monkey and b) only allowed to watch Sunday night Dickens adaptations on the small black and white set in the library.
missed out "not allowed to watch telly ever until after 4:30pm because of {nobody-ever-told-us} and btw, Dad will put the news on at 5:40pm every single day and that's your time up, deal with it.
