Convenience is not a good reason to place your kids at risk.
It’s said that the number 2 reason parents give for providing their child with unfettered access to their own smartphone is convenience.
A Digital Babysitter
This is too often a euphemism and a self-justification for using smartphones as a digital babysitter.
But when we do this, guess who is too often babysitting our kids? About everyone on the planet we would never allow anywhere near our homes.
Is it possible that the sex trafficking trade has been flourishing in recent years and times because it’s been made so much easier be the proliferation of smartphones in the hands of kids?
Remember, relying on Junior’s smartphone as a babysitter is too often like paying guys like Larry Flint, Ted Bundy, and Charles Manson for that so-called convenience.
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