A short monologue arguing that children should not be given smartphones before high school. The speaker recommends limiting access to the full internet and constant external contact by providing simpler devices (flip phones or basic phone-watches) and suggests shared or household computers instead of personal internet-capable devices for young children.
No smartphone before high school, you can give your kid a flip phone. The millennials had flip phones. They came out fine. No access or no smartphone on their own. Your own. You can't have your own. And that would even go for an iPad. If you give your kid an iPad and say, here, Billy, this is your iPad, you can keep it in your room and use it anywhere in the house, and you can take it outside, even. Although maybe no WI fi. Whatever. The point is, the Internet is an amazing thing, and you can have a computer in your living room or kitchen when you have young kids and they can do things on the computer. But you do not want to give your child the entire Internet in his or her pocket, and you do not want the entire world to be able to reach your child whenever they want to. So it's just insane that we're giving children, even before puberty, a smartphone. Let them have a flip phone or a simple phone watch, something like that. That's rule number one.
