In general, at any given level of child maturity and parental risk tolerance, devices like this watch let children have more independence.
What has changed over the last few decades is primarily a large decrease in parental risk tolerance. I don’t know what’s driving this, but it’s probably downstream from increasing wealth, lower child mortality, and the demographic transition.
In your opinion, why do kids need such devices to get that independence if kids had that independence before those devices existed?
In general, at any given level of child maturity and parental risk tolerance, devices like this watch let children have more independence.
What has changed over the last few decades is primarily a large decrease in parental risk tolerance. I don’t know what’s driving this, but it’s probably downstream from increasing wealth, lower child mortality, and the demographic transition.