The best was the night the parents were complaining about one of the teachers. Over here there is continuous assessment even in primary and it counts to your end of year rating and eventually to what secondary you end up going to. Homework is marked from 1-6 where six is the best score. One parent was cribbing that her kid never gets more than three and itâs not fair because the mother does her homework for her! Seems about right your stupid bint i thought to myself.
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Christ
Did you not get caught up in this sort of stuff when Home & Away first aired back in the 90âs mate?
On the flip side⌠some of the content on youtube is mighty for kids. They is a few channels on youtube where groups of kids have their own sort of tv show⌠Tiana Toys and Me being a big favorite of ours.
We are in the middle of an unstoppable technological revolution and there are lads here who think itâs a good idea to deprive their children of a he tools to deal with it until as late as possible. For fuck sake.
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Monitored use vs unsupervised use - you gimpy bastard.
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Good luck with trying to monitor it when you donât even understand what they are doing with it.
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Big opening for Buff Egan here â
Society in general has moved on from the church.
The judgemental, controlling sort drawn to the church hasnât gone away. Media is full of advice/commandments about how you should live, behave, feel.
Attitudes to sex, abortion, relationships, etc, as illustrated by studies show little correlation to the views put out as mainstream.
The opinions of young males are not valued in this brave new world.
I held out.
Be the change you want to see in the world with the cell(mobile) phones pal.
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Not sure if itâs a pisstake?
Are you under the illusion that kids are using the iPhone to do a bit of coding?
Theyâre looking at social media, violent porn and challenge sites where they scrape gaping stigmata type wounds into their hands and where the winner is the one who commits suicide.
Oh and terrorising or being terrorised.
Maybe yours are. But most of them donât live in this dystopian world and are spending their days on instagram and Snapchat. Itâs like the old days when video cassettes came out first and there was public hysteria because there were a couple of titles like Driller Killer and I spit on your grave whereas in the real world most people rented Ferris Buellers Day Off.
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I agree with this. Itâs happening so embrace it. Talk to the kids though and supprt them through it.
That said I await the view of @caoimhaoin
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Are you suggesting an 8 year old kid should have a phone?
Every generation worries about how the next one will turn out. Thatâs normal.
Those damn Beatles and their rock n roll.
And every generation blames the one that went beforeâŚ
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its a very oirish mentality, this inherent suspicion of change and new technology, a resistance to change, that is has to be bad and dangerous, its why Oireland will never be a proper country
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Youâre living in cloud cuckoo land mate. I assume weâre all aware that many kids are pure angels and use the phone accordingly, there are plenty others who are being fucked up in many ways by phone use, and itâs not essential by any means, theyâre learning nothing on social media.
As I said my own children wonât have a phone for a few more years.
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Heard it all before. The luddites who wouldnât let their children watch telly. Thereâll be something even âworseâ along in a few years to worry parents and theyâll all be wondering what the fuss was about smartphones
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