5yo girl with smartphone and snapchat

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Reasonable or unreasonable? Do feel free to share your thoughts

The irony being that at 5 they can't read or write usually so will just watch endless awful video shorts

It's a no from me... but we see it all day everyday, just take a walk through tescos and almost every toddler or baby has a phone or iPad in front of its face... they are almost born nowadays hooked up to smart devices.... is it bad parenting or peer pressure

Idiot parents gonna idiot. My brother is one. 9yo niece has been having dramas on Tiktok, so for Christmas she got....a smart phone. Smh.

Why are you asking? I genuinely mean that. Are you wanting someone to give you a genuine circumstance someone should give a 5 year old Snapchat?

I work in a primary 1 class and I'd say about 80-90% of them will talk to you about what they've been watching on tik tok. I've no doubt most of them have Snapchat for the funny filters too. Im amazed people think this isn't real

Also can absolutely believe this and also think it’s absolutely ridiculous and depressing.

@queenofcruises Babies and toddlers shoved in front of tablets - I hate it and I never did it myself, but it has become SO normalised that I don’t think most people for a second consider the potential risk to a brain in its period of most intense development, they just think it’s a handy tool to keep a kid in their buggy.

Smartphone - not necessarily bad depending on content and monitoring by parents. I

Snapchat - absolutely not OK. Don't allow it for My teens.

My DC had Amazon kids fire from 7\8 but those cost at least £200 nowadays , whereas smartphones can be as little as £50. Absolutely must be used in presence of parents and controls done up to 11 though.

Why does a small child need their own phone? Access to Snapchat? Games etc? Monitored or not.

It's society thinking they "must be entertained" and it's incredibly easy just to give your baby a screen, turns them into a staring statue and they are quiet and still.

like just today another thread is asking about "how do you get ready in morning with a 10 month old" and OP suggesting a screen is the seemingly only option. Rather than think that literally billions of people have and are managed to get washed and dressed whilst having a baby present without screens for thousands of years.... So there's probably a screen free way.

i'll be honest, i am a dispatcher for the local police and i take 999 calls. a good 90% of the 999 calls i take in one day are what we call 'abandoned calls'.. and you can guarantee, that atleast 50% of these calls are from children (between 3 and 7 years old).

they ring by accident, their smart phones do it rather than them doing it, we have to ring the number back initially to see if we can speak to somone, they answer we say hi its the police you rang 999, do they panic and hang up.

we then have to waste time and rescources locating the phone and the subscriber, probably pulling a copper from a serious crime to go speak to parents of a child who has accidently called 999 on their phone.. its a complete waste of public money and resources... but if we didn't do it, and just closed it as 'abandoned' and that one time it was a genuine call... we the police would never live it down

No point in discussing anything with you as your reply is obtuse and deliberately misinterpreting every point in my brief post.

When I very first went on you tube , (2011) looked at someone’s profile - ( he seemed off) and he had saved a video of a young child doing “gym” in her bedroom all on her own in front of a webcam.
The comment section under the video was appalling .

i wondered if the girl’ parents had set her up with it.

I reported it to you tube at once.

It was sickening.

Poor little girl just had to have been set up by a parent.

That’s a really bad side effect of kids having phones.
Once with a landline 📞 ( the phone was on the floor)
I’d been hoovering and must have somehow nudged the phone and it called 999
i only realised when they called me and said “You called emergency services?”
I said I must have knocked it with hoover and they said “ oh we could hear someone hoovering “
Luckily they didn’t waste time coming to check, but they were very thorough, just in case I was trying to be careful if I really needed help.
👍

WTF? Child should be closely monitored by SS imo.

I had computer access from adult hood 2011 there were some really awful things online then ( Thankfully I never saw porn, but there lots of unfiltered accidents shown and some of those were quite distressing.

Then the parents (and any parents who are interested) should either buy the book 'The Anxious Generation' or if not, then watch one of the author's videos.

It can be. We have a relative who got their 5 year old his own phone. It's an iPhone too, and not an old/basic one.

yep... and thats what we do! but if you had not answered we would have sent someone to your door....