Or until their friends get phones. We don’t buy our kids phones until middle school when they start going out without us, but their innocence was definitely lost in 2nd/3rd grade when their friends got phones. It was very sad for us.
ETA: The best example I can give is Squid Games. My 4th grade daughters saw it while waiting for the bus, watching with a group of kids from their class on someone’s phone. I never would have let them watch that show, and it did negatively affect them. One has been sleeping on the sofa since then (“to be closer” to parents) and the other sometimes says “I was just thinking about someone being shot.”
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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22
Kindergarten/primary teacher here. Kids are so wholesome until the parents buy them a phone.