(01-10-2020 04:14 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(01-10-2020 03:39 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(01-10-2020 03:04 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(01-10-2020 03:01 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(01-10-2020 02:40 PM)Stick4489 Wrote:  Why would you care what somebody else's kid needs or doesn't need?

Good point.

But here's my side and you can disagree.. I find technology such as this distracting. Kids are more focused on getting the mini computer out to play Minecraft or make TikTok videos than they are on focusing on class or class work.

I saw it over Christmas with my nephew who is 14 who was more focused on watching YouTube than anything else. With my wife's niece and nephew who are under 10 wanting to play with an iPhone or iPad.. Even with my 4 year old who is mesmerized with a Fire Tablet.

The two under 10 got caught watching something that was talking about sex and didn't know what they were watching.

Maybe I'm too old fashioned and think kids should be kids and not zombies addicted to Technology. I know with our son, we only let him have his tablet once a week maybe.. He gets maybe an hour of TV a day during the week if that.. On the weekends I don't let him have his tablet and we may watch a movie or two in the evenings when it's just us.

It's more of an observation than anything else. And I'm sure there are legitimate reasons for kids that young to need phones, but we didn't (but let's be honest in that day and age the cellphones were huge, expensive, and you got charged by the minute when you made a call, it wasn't until my first or second year of college when texting was a thing or a thing in my neck of the woods).

That is for parenting, not government. Which is why my op said Nanny State.

There ya go.

But can we be real..

Great..

Even if this did happen, would they actually enforce this? Doubt it.

Remember the law maker's bill says "possession" of a mobile phone is punishable.
The law is introduced because "too" many younger people drive while texting and get bullied via social media, and there are already laws against that. The bill is the most insane thing imaginable. People use phones for dam near everything today, food order, uber driving, gps, nest, job app, etc.

it's a must when in the field.....it's scary how efficient I conduct business vs. a toll phone....

it's also not that hard to pull over to respond to critical calls....

stupid fks that pounce when their phone 'rings' is about as sick and pathetic as it gets....

'hey, look at me' is a parental training issue.....nothing more, noting less....