I set expectations when she saved up and got the phone – little did I know it would undermine them, and her mental health

I think its not just kids anymore, it’s adults too. Everyone is glued to their screens these days. But kids are more vulnerable to influences from “social” media and don’t have any defences to the psychological warfare going on. Of course they feel like shit.

  • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    It’s not a simple story of just taking away the phone.

    I discovered she’d circumvented the screen limits and had been using social media into the wee hours of the morning.

    And later, after she did take the phone away, she found her daughter had kept all old phone that was supposedly sold.

    It does seem to be a pretty extreme case, but there was lots going on here.