fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agoParents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushbackwww.straitstimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down13
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minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days agoAnd they’ll just learn they can’t trust you. So instead of coming to you when they have a problem, they’ll go to someone else, probably online. That sounds way worse than them failing and coming to you for help.
minus-squareGrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 days agoI mean, I’m just going to do it as a dad joke, like set their background as my face so they learn to lock their device.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days agoLol, ok that would be funny. But if it’s completely under your control, that novelty would wear off quickly and they’d quickly stop trusting you.
And they’ll just learn they can’t trust you. So instead of coming to you when they have a problem, they’ll go to someone else, probably online. That sounds way worse than them failing and coming to you for help.
I mean, I’m just going to do it as a dad joke, like set their background as my face so they learn to lock their device.
Lol, ok that would be funny. But if it’s completely under your control, that novelty would wear off quickly and they’d quickly stop trusting you.