Re: Not for today's kids
by SpaceMonkey-Mafioso » 2 days ago (Sat Nov 7 2015 11:53:57)
IMDb member since January 2000
And there lies part of the problem. No child under the age of 12 should be considered part of the "iphone" generation. If a parent has allowed their elementary age child to have an online presence and a smartphone, they have given into the marketing machine of Apple, Android, etc. to the detriment of their child's intellect.
And television is going to rot the brains of kids.
And comic books are going to make kids illiterate juvenile delinquents.
And rock 'n' roll music is going to corrupt the youth.
And keep those damn kids off of my lawn.
It's pretty close to impossible for an elementary age child to not have an online presence. Schools now require kids to use the Internet for everything from basic researching to homework to communicating with teachers.
Pay phones are now virtually non-existent so a kid who is away from his parents now has no way to contact people unless they have a phone.
And why would anyone want to deny a child access to information anyway? Why deny a child the opportunity to peruse the massive amount of information available? Today cell phones give their users access to more information than the most well stocked library in the world.
The Internet and cell phones have made reading fashionable.
And that is supposedly going to work to the detriment of a child's intellect?
Please...
You sound like the grandparents of a Renaissance child who first brought home a book printed on a movable type printing press.
Those damned modern mass produced books full of information those kids were reading were sure to stunt their intellectual growth. How could access to information do anything else?
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SpaceMonkey-Mafioso
9 years ago
By online prescence, perhaps I should've specified social media prescence. Of course, children should have access to the Internet. The issue is immediate access to information at any second. Studies have shown that facts and figures are not remembered in the same way when a person knows the information is instantly available in their pocket. With children, this could have lasting effects on their long term memorization abilities. I'm not making this up. Look it up. Or ask any teacher who deals with students and their smart phone addictions on a daily basis.
And by the way you use such ancient references to "rock and roll" and comic books, I'm probably a good twenty years younger than you. Lol.
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Chris-Au
9 years ago
Re: Not for today's kids
by SpaceMonkey-Mafioso » 8 hours ago (Mon Nov 9 2015 23:59:41)
IMDb member since January 2000
Post Edited: Tue Nov 10 2015 01:54:58
By online prescence, perhaps I should've specified social media prescence.
Okay that is different.
But even with that it's still very difficult because schools often require such a presence from students. Or at least their teachers require such a presence.
Within the syllabus my kids brought home from school this year each had a section wherein it was recommended that they use Facebook as a means to contact their teachers and to communicate with fellow students.
The 'comic book' and 'rock 'n' roll' references were attempts to illustrate that there are always people, and their is always 'research' from supposedly reputable scientific minds that panic with every new thing that comes along and declare that the new thing is going to destroy the minds of kids.
Never happens.
But yeah there's a good chance I'm probably twenty years older than you.
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number1212
9 years ago
Like how old are your kids? You have to be 13 to have a Facebook account. I cannot believe that they would suggest that young kids hang out in Facebook.
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Chris-Au
9 years ago
Re: Not for today's kids
by number1212 » 2 hours ago (Wed Nov 11 2015 14:43:18)
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Like how old are your kids? You have to be 13 to have a Facebook account.
I don't mean this to sound as snarky as it's going to sound but...
It's sort of sweet that you believe that.
You don't have to be thirteen to have a Facebook account. You only have to claim to be thirteen to get an account.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/228348/kids_under_13_are_already_allowed_on_facebook.htmlTo be fair the it was not a requirement that students use Facebook to keep in contact it was a suggestion. The school itself has it's own Facebook equivalent that is for students and faculty only.
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number1212
9 years ago
Yes I realize that a 10-year-old can say he was born in 1965 and get an account, but that doesn't make it right. If I was a parent I would never condone something like that.
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