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Again you don't need to actually take the physical phone. These days there are many benefits to having a phone on you that is internet capable especially if the parent knows what they are doing. You could have just locked the phone and not even bothered taking it away. Why do that? Because you still can locate your child, make emergency calls, increasingly phones are becoming medical aids, etc.
You are actually more in control as a parent using software solutions over physically taking the device. For people that want to take the phones... if your kid ever goes missing you may regret that the rest of your life.
what kind of software would you need to accomplish that - location and remote locking?
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Originally Posted by FatBob96
Best thing you can do for them.
Better yet, make it 18 and make them pay for it themselves.
yeah. i just hope we can hold out of over the years of whining and begging...
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Originally Posted by skeddy
Our cell phones are the most important thing we own. People spend 12-16 hours a day staring at it.
it's strange how that basically happened in the last 10-15 years and people now take it as a given without much thought about what effects that is having on all of us, not just students in class.
what kind of software would you need to accomplish that - location and remote locking?
yeah. i just hope we can hold out of over the years of whining and begging...
it's strange how that basically happened in the last 10-15 years and people now take it as a given without much thought about what effects that is having on all of us, not just students in class.
So much so the government considers it an essential necessity now.
The initial free landline phones have turned into cellphones with internet access.
And people will have to have cellphones when our currency goes digital.
Society is not going to go backwards.
People actually get upset if they have gone out and "forgot" their cellphones.
They think I'm crazy because I do leave my cellphone at home if I just go out to grab something at the store.
People actually get upset if they have gone out and "forgot" their cellphones.
They think I'm crazy because I do leave my cellphone at home if I just go out to grab something at the store.
I get clowned by my family and friends because I honestly couldn't care less about my phone. Besides occasional conversations with maybe 4-5 people, and even more infrequent texts with maybe 6-7 more people, I never have any reason whatsoever to have a phone. Honestly, if I didn't use Spotify in my car occasionally (since even XM radio has very little for my eccentric musical tastes), I'd never have my phone anywhere but sitting on the desk charger pad by my PC.
To me, it's a device for one-to-one comms, and I generally don't need to speak with anyone all that often, so....yeah, not very important. That's why my Galaxy S7 is 7 years old and looks to make it well beyond that.
So much so the government considers it an essential necessity now.
The initial free landline phones have turned into cellphones with internet access.
And people will have to have cellphones when our currency goes digital.
Society is not going to go backwards.
People actually get upset if they have gone out and "forgot" their cellphones.
They think I'm crazy because I do leave my cellphone at home if I just go out to grab something at the store.
and the first handouts xoe gave the flood of illegals was... cell phones.
The Twitter page was removed. I really don't think this is a left-right thing. Plenty of left parents don't want their kids on phones in class, and plenty of R parents want to make sure they can reach their kids or kids can reach them.
I don't know why all this group-think keeps being attributed to everything. It's not at all accurate 99% of the time.
For people that want to take the phones... if your kid ever goes missing you may regret that the rest of your life.
Before every kid was tagged with a GPS tracker circa 2010-present...how did any kids survive without their parents having a 24/7/365 GPS fix on their location?
I was a latchkey kid in the 70s and when I got my first bike at age 6, my mom went whole months without knowing my whereabouts unless I was physically in her presence. And uhm...so did every other kid from that era. How on Earth did we all survive without constant surveillance and helicopter parenting???
Again you don't need to actually take the physical phone. These days there are many benefits to having a phone on you that is internet capable especially if the parent knows what they are doing. You could have just locked the phone and not even bothered taking it away. Why do that? Because you still can locate your child, make emergency calls, increasingly phones are becoming medical aids, etc.
You are actually more in control as a parent using software solutions over physically taking the device. For people that want to take the phones... if your kid ever goes missing you may regret that the rest of your life.
How did America ever survive before the cell phone ?????
We're lucky we survived up until the year 2000 without the popularity of cellphones.
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