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Is there a phone OS designed for children? I would expect a restricted by default OS where all options (and what apps/domains can be accessed) are managed by a parent device.
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When they reach screen age (probably not before 12) I plan on giving them an Apple Watch with family restrictions
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12 sounds really old to me to disallow any screen. What’s with technologists adopting increasingly anti tech posture for their children? Do you feel like you were ruined?
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12 is my target for owning their own device. Before that what they have is supervised screen times for specific tasks. Don’t worry by 8 they’ll be printing their own toys, but on the family computer with dad. Unsupervised access to an infinite scroll of short dopamine shots is too dangerous.
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I definitely agree the “exposure to the public feed” would be the thing I’d be inclined to postpone the most, but there’s a world of wonderful digital tools that are local first that I’d love to enable (even solo) long before that.
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We agree there. YouTube, social media, IMs, these are the ones I think should be as late as possible. What are the sort of offline tools you’d like to enable?
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Drawing, music, camera, even some scratch style programming doesn’t hurt to have available to play with early on. Maybe some approved videos and music, and games.
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Agree. Drawing is an exception I usually allow, but I do prefer to see them drawing in traditional media first. Supervised activities with dad (like stop motion video) doesn’t require them owning a device.
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Coincidentally I just had a long flight where I allowed my 3yo to play for a longer time than usual with drawing apps. By the time we looked back he had figured out how to exit the drawing app and was exploring an animation studio app, with determination and curiosity. Maybe you’re into something there, Dan!..
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