I don’t have kids, but if I did, these technologies would be my biggest focus. They can give kids back the independence they’ve lost, and make going places and doing things much more possible and exciting than always having direct adult supervision.
So: It seems like what you got is far from idea. You must’ve researched other options. How about a very brief summary of your thoughts on the options you didn’t get? We can assume they’d all have various hidden downsides just like these did.
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.
I don’t have kids, but if I did, these technologies would be my biggest focus. They can give kids back the independence they’ve lost, and make going places and doing things much more possible and exciting than always having direct adult supervision.
So: It seems like what you got is far from idea. You must’ve researched other options. How about a very brief summary of your thoughts on the options you didn’t get? We can assume they’d all have various hidden downsides just like these did.
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.