Parents: Teens don't want you to take their phones away, but that isn't because their too attatched to see it go. They resist because we really want to have control over it, and it's healthy for us to want that control over the things that belong to us, because we're getting more independent. So just. Find a better method. Amirite?
Parents are supposed to love and give to us unconditionally. They don't have to buy me a phone, but if they do, they can't make it seem like I'm in debt to them for it. It was their choice to make a loving gift to me, and making that conditional is wrong.
(Actually in my case my parents didn't even buy my phone it was my grandparents)
Wow...u sound super privledged, and i sound old...and our grandchildren are supposet to respect us unconditionally and not abuse the phones.( but we know you will)
We're not abusing the phones, just using. If the phone usage is actually the issue, I don't see a problem with putting an app on it - not super invasive, just enough to know how long they are on each thing and be able to moderate that. But if we don't do our chores or do something wrong that they need to discipline us for, they should ground us or take away something else. Parents, having grown up without phones, unconsciously see them as unnecessary and a suitable punishment. But the truth is, they've become vitally important. I, for one, might use my cell phone to contact my parents, and I use it as an alarm tone and as a quick way to check which assignments are due without getting out my whole computer. And that's what isn't okay.
Survive, sure. In the idea of, staying alive. Might I miss important things? Yep... there aren't other ways to scan my homework into a PDF. Our teachers assume we have our phone on us.
Ok clearly we are at a point where life without a phone is impossible and even dangerous...too much and its unhealthy too little and your missing out, but for your sanity you need to learn to put it down... Some days you spend every minute staring at your screen,Put it down Sports are the only thing phones have not corrupted
Assuming I use it at dinner, are we? 😂 (I don't, by the way.) I'm not talking about when someone is using the phone too much, I'm talking about using it as a general punishment for literally anything.
You are automatically assuming I'm constantly on it, but I'm actually not. Actually, very few teenagers are on their phones the amount most adults imagine they are.
Paying for your phone yourself is the first step of independence..and parents would respect that
Parents are supposed to love and give to us unconditionally. They don't have to buy me a phone, but if they do, they can't make it seem like I'm in debt to them for it. It was their choice to make a loving gift to me, and making that conditional is wrong.
(Actually in my case my parents didn't even buy my phone it was my grandparents)
Wow...u sound super privledged, and i sound old...and our grandchildren are supposet to respect us unconditionally and not abuse the phones.( but we know you will)
We're not abusing the phones, just using. If the phone usage is actually the issue, I don't see a problem with putting an app on it - not super invasive, just enough to know how long they are on each thing and be able to moderate that. But if we don't do our chores or do something wrong that they need to discipline us for, they should ground us or take away something else. Parents, having grown up without phones, unconsciously see them as unnecessary and a suitable punishment. But the truth is, they've become vitally important. I, for one, might use my cell phone to contact my parents, and I use it as an alarm tone and as a quick way to check which assignments are due without getting out my whole computer. And that's what isn't okay.
We know u can survive without one
Survive, sure. In the idea of, staying alive. Might I miss important things? Yep... there aren't other ways to scan my homework into a PDF. Our teachers assume we have our phone on us.
Ok clearly we are at a point where life without a phone is impossible and even dangerous...too much and its unhealthy too little and your missing out, but for your sanity you need to learn to put it down... Some days you spend every minute staring at your screen,Put it down Sports are the only thing phones have not corrupted
Learn to put it down yourself , so they wont want to...maybe leave it in your room at dinner
Assuming I use it at dinner, are we? 😂 (I don't, by the way.) I'm not talking about when someone is using the phone too much, I'm talking about using it as a general punishment for literally anything.
You are automatically assuming I'm constantly on it, but I'm actually not. Actually, very few teenagers are on their phones the amount most adults imagine they are.