> We can always take the phone away.
Kids are… resourceful.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teen-goes-viral-for-tweeting-fr...
Last week, a 15-year-old girl named Dorothy looked at the smart fridge in her kitchen and decided to try and talk to it: "I do not know if this is going to tweet I am talking to my fridge what the heck my Mom confiscated all of my electronics again." Sure enough, it worked. The message Dorothy said out loud to her fridge was tweeted out by her Twitter account.
(And before that, she used her DS, her Wii, and a cousin's old iPod. There's always a friend's house, too.)
I'd posit that social media restricted-solely-to-a-fridge is still significantly less harmful than social media literally-always-within-arms-reach.
This was the best they could come up with on short/no notice.
$50 (or a hand-me-down from a friend) will buy you an Android burner phone that can hop on the neighbor's wifi.
Confiscate the hell out of it. That's what parenting is for. How much money is a kid going to spend on burner phones before deciding to just stop bringing them to the house?
> Confiscate the hell out of it.
People in prisons manage to conceal contraband (including cell phones) in their cells, and they have substantially fewer hiding spots.
Turning your house into a prison with random room tossings has consequences, too.
I don't really understand what you're arguing for here. Obviously prisons understand they can't catch everything, but they try anyway because it's still better than letting prisoners bring in whatever they want.
They try, and they fail comprehensively, and that's despite being very willing to do things that would be extremely clear child abuse if I tried them on my kids.
The prison warden doesn't care if the prisoners love him 20 years from now.
I ran a secret Ethernet cable to the router to circumvent parental Internet restrictions, that was in the early 2000s. Teenagers will be teenagers.
My dad took away my PC when I got bad grades and put it in his room.
I took the mobo, CPU, RAM, hard drive and PSU out of the case, put them in my backpack and went to my friends house. He never noticed.
That said, I still couldn't use the PC when I was at home. Physically taking away the machine wasn't really the punishment.
This would apply to cell phones and such too. Sure they might figure out some workaround that works sometimes, but it won't be the same.