It’s funny how I never thought it would be an issue but kids have real impulse control issues and devices are super easy to spend too much time on and contribute to negative mental health. Screen time controls don’t solve this, but they help a little bit as part of many other things to help people learn about how to self regulate.
Good times.
If that's all today's kids had access to, I wouldn't be worried about it either.
I work with "average" kids today that have access to far more developmentally-damaging media, and I want the few kids that have parents that care enough to set up controls, to have a fighting chance.
I didn't mean my silly recollections there to be a way to handwave the concerns of people with parental controls nowadays. Those are important.
I just miss those simpler times. The most risque thing we got our hands on back then were low resolution porn clips. Perhaps some odd hentai AVI with mangled translation.
People used to be up in arms about something silly as Carmageddon being damaging to kid's mental health while truly awful stuff such as social media was brewing on the horizon.
For 00's kids the new boogeyman is "social media". Likely will turn out false too.
Just sounds like a cop-out way to blame anything other than poor parenting.