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These black and white solutions are not tenable. My eldest got a phone when they moved up to secondary school. It's a useful tool for keeping in touch with their friends especially when most people don't have landlines any more. Their generation is growing up as digital natives and I don't think holding them back from phones will help them in the long run.
We do limit what apps can be installed though. They certainly want TikTok but so far we've said no and YouTube is only available on the family TV. So far they have not expressed any interest in getting access to social media although I do have to occasionally unblock Facebook because some of the homework links to videos on the site.
I know I'm probably in the minority in having enough digital skills to erect some barriers against the worst of the internet but I'm very much aware they will set it eventually. My hope is we've done enough to prepare them for that by the time the training wheels come off.
What is this, common sense? In my comment section??
Why would e-homework be linked to Facebook.com? What a weird thing
A lot of homework starts with a media clip of some sort which they will comment on our analyse. Sometimes those clips are hosted on Facebook pages and it's not really a windmill I want to tilt at right now.