Quite A Few Folks Are Trolling

[Razors Edge ★]

...PC magazine.  Where does a 3-5 year old even put their mobile phone??? 30/1,000 parents are NUTS (mobile and laptop).  I get the tablet - an easy babysitter - and the speaker (but is that really the kids?).  THe phone and laptops, though???

[Kzoo]

[BuffJim]

I was at a party and teased some 4 year olds for not having cellphones.

Every one of them said they had a tablet.

[sheep_herder ★]

Maybe 80 yo

[ChrisL]

My kids have a laptop but rarely use them.    They will most likely hang around as they are used for business applications and students but for personal use most people I know do everything on their phones and then tablets.  

[Page Turner]

...if you don't have a smart phone in preschool, how in hell are you supposed to get into a good college ?

[Indy]

12 minutes ago, Page Turner said:

...if you don't have a smart phone in preschool, how in hell are you supposed to get into a good college ?

Guess my daughter is screwed.  She just has an Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet.  Of course with her speech issues, she's hard enough to understand face to face, a phone would be impossible.

[ChrisL]

3 minutes ago, Indy said:

Guess my daughter is screwed.  She just has an Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet.  Of course with her speech issues, she's hard enough to understand face to face, a phone would be impossible.

I think the graph is pretty accurate in that as kids become more responsible and doing things away from mom & dad they get the phones.  

My kids were in the 12-15 bucket when we got them phones.

[Longjohn ★]

My 11 year old granddaughter told her dad she is the only one in her class that doesn’t have a phone.

[Razors Edge ★]

3 minutes ago, Longjohn said:

My 11 year old granddaughter told her dad she is the only one in her class that doesn’t have a phone.

SAYS EVERY KID EVER ABOUT EVERYTHING!

[MoseySusan]

50 minutes ago, Indy said:

Guess my daughter is screwed.  She just has an Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet.  Of course with her speech issues, she's hard enough to understand face to face, a phone would be impossible.

Does she use a voice app on her tablet? #2 son has one to help with ordering in restaurants and making transit reservations.

[Indy]

21 minutes ago, roadsue said:

Does she use a voice app on her tablet? #2 son has one to help with ordering in restaurants and making transit reservations.

No, and it wouldn't help her as her problem is she really doesn't even have a clue how to make the sounds for hard consonants.  But on the plus side, we finally taught her to some what spit.  It's amazing what you take for granted when you are just able to do stuff without thinking about it.

[MickinMD ★]

Tablets are good for reading/playing.

High, Middle and even Elementary School kids without a laptop - or access whenever they need it to a home desktop - are at a disadvantage to other students.

Mobile Phones are an excellent way to track kids - where they go after school, etc.

[Page Turner]

2 hours ago, Indy said:

Guess my daughter is screwed.  She just has an Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet.  Of course with her speech issues, she's hard enough to understand face to face, a phone would be impossible.

...however your daughter turns out, (and she will doubtless turn out pretty well,) there will come a time when it's your fault.  I don't know what it will be, or when it will be, but my advice is to just accept it and apologize.  

[Airehead]

2 hours ago, Indy said:

Guess my daughter is screwed.  She just has an Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet.  Of course with her speech issues, she's hard enough to understand face to face, a phone would be impossible.

Kids dont use phones to actually call people.

[MoseySusan]

2 hours ago, Indy said:

No, and it wouldn't help her as her problem is she really doesn't even have a clue how to make the sounds for hard consonants.  But on the plus side, we finally taught her to some what spit.  It's amazing what you take for granted when you are just able to do stuff without thinking about it.

Right? 

[ChrisL]

1 hour ago, Page Turner said:

...however your daughter turns out, (and she will doubtless turn out pretty well,) there will come a time when it's your fault.  I don't know what it will be, or when it will be, but my advice is to just accept it and apologize.  

Well this is like saying the sky is blue or water is wet...?

[Ralphie ★]

58 minutes ago, Airehead said:

Kids dont use phones to actually call people.

Phone is more and more of an anachronism or misnomer. I loved it when an old lady called a cell phone a telephone on a tv show .

 

[Indy]

1 hour ago, Page Turner said:

...however your daughter turns out, (and she will doubtless turn out pretty well,) there will come a time when it's your fault.  I don't know what it will be, or when it will be, but my advice is to just accept it and apologize.  

Time came when she was born.  Based on my peculiar injury history, I am the source of hyper mobility legitimate issue, which he attributed as the cause of her cleft.

Apparently according to him, it's not normal for people's shoulders to just fall out of place, then be able to put them back in place and be fine until they do it again randomly.

[Page Turner]

...told you so.  

[ChrisL]

1 hour ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

Phone is more and more of an anachronism or misnomer. I loved it when an old lady called a cell phone a telephone on a tv show .

 

My mom pre & post stroke would always be amazed that my work people knew I was at her house!?!!   

I’d be checking up on her at say 3 PM and I get a work call on my cell.  I take the call and afterwards: How did they know you were here and not at work?  Oh I told them before I left....  Oh ya ok...

What the hell else could I say?!?!

[Prophet Zacharia]

13 hours ago, Airehead said:

Kids dont use phones to actually call people.

Exactly. They’re mini tablets. And likely to be either mom or dad’s old phones, or purchased cheep as part of a family cell plan. 

[team scooter]

When my kids grew up, they accused us of using the TV to babysit them. "THUNDER CATS HO!" Today their kids lay on the floor with smart phones and tablets. KIds today learn early how to use electronics. I found I finally had to lock my phone and laptop so my 4 year old (at the time) granddaughter wouldn't replace my screen pictures with pics of her making cute faces.