• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Apparently parents love it as it keeps the kids quiet and relieves them of the stress of parenting.

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      4 days ago

      Also a tracker and a way to contact them at all times. I believe parents who let children take phones to school would feel a bit nervous if their kid would forget it at home one day.

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        3 days ago

        I get why people do this but if I was being tracked when I was a kid, especially after age 16, I would be furious. I would have done something like hide it in a hole beside the movie theatre so I could go smoke some weed and have sex with my girlfriend.

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          3 days ago

          I mean, if by the time you buy your condoms and weed your parent is still tracking your ass, there’s something wrong with them, not you.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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      3 days ago

      As a parent, it is convenient to have a handy device to zombify my hellspawn for an hour while I need to get some actual important adult shit done, but I also strictly limit mobile device use because my kids will not be iPad kids for as long as I have any say in the matter