Quite a twist, no? This generations of parents are telling their children "Well all your friends are jumping off a bridge, so you need to as well."

Also, it is arguably dangerous to not let your teen have a phone in a time when payphones (and to a great extent landlines) no longer exist.

Maybe legally banning minors from smartphones instead of from arbitrary websites is the better idea.

> once you give a teen a smartphone your control over what websites they visit ends.

Isn't it pretty easy to set up a whitelist of apps/websites kids are allowed to use?

Whether or not that's a healthy thing for your parent/child relationship is a different question.

Don't do it then. :)

It's not hard. If they need to be contacted get them a dumb phone. And yes, my kids will miss out. They will miss out on their attention span being destroyed, their ability to critically think destroyed, body issues, radicalization, horrible influences, etc... My children will miss out on all that and I'm very glad that will be the case. I'm not sure why other parents are rushing to destroy their kids brains but that's their choice.

So does grounding a kid, so I guess parents shouldn't do that either unless all parents collectively agree to ground their children.

> But also: cutting one kid off from social networks ostracises them.

2 of my 3 have never touched social media are are healthy, functioning adults with jobs and friends.

FOMO chasing Jones family bullshit.