Parents told The Wall Street Journal they have to continuously check their Screen Time settings to ensure their children's usage is limited.

Some Apple users say its parental controls aren’t working properly. A CEO who has 4 kids called it ‘frustrating.’::Parents told The Wall Street Journal they have to continuously check their Screen Time settings to ensure their children’s usage is limited.

  • realitistaEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Again, this is a response on a thread about parental controls where the opening salvo was

    Do some parenting? Not just leave them alone with gadgets if you don’t want them on them all day.

    The clear implication being that if you are using parental controls, you aren’t doing parenting and leaving your kids alone with gadgets constantly

    As for you, you are the one making the assumptions here. What does this look like to you? Because to me it looks lke a pretty damn big assumtion:

    I, personally, think it is idiotic to assume parental controls do more than present a barrier to content, not usually a blocker.

    And it’s literally you who is saying that someone who uses parental controls won’t educate their children in any other way:

    What happens when your kids use other devices without parental controls at a friend’s house or school? Will your kids know about being responsible with content and how to navigate to safe spaces, or are they just going to go totally wild?

    • MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      11 months ago

      There’s no reasoning with you. You are interpreting my statements in the most black and white manner possible when they are explicitly meant to acknowledge nuance. Nothing I said precluded education. I have simply been saying that parental controls are insufficient. I still use them, they are a barrier, after all.

      Let me give you an analogy along the lines of kids. I’m saying that the pullout method is insufficient. It’s flawed in many ways. Am I suggesting that you should forgo using any birth control because there are flaws with the pull out method? Fuck no. I’m sorry that you cannot see the nuance.