2023-06-28 08:20:12
– Help! Parental control!
Coralie, 14, 10th grade student: “We often ask what adults think of phones and screens, but us young people, what is our point of view?”
Coralie
Posted today at 10:20 a.m.
Adults criticize us for never letting go of our smartphones. Always in our pocket, grafted to our hand, or even in our backpack, it is true that mobile phones have an important place in the daily life of adolescents. But how to do without it?
These jewels of technology provide everything we need: entertainment, culture, but above all, most important of all, keeping social ties! For teenagers, it is essential to be able to communicate with young people of their age. Personally, I would have a hard time doing without Snapchat, WhatsApp or Instagram.
“Learning to deal with certain problems caused by technologies is also part of our learning because we will be confronted with them all our lives.”
Faced with this phenomenon, a new application has appeared, the nightmare of any self-respecting teenager: parental controls! Able to have all power over electronic devices, he is as powerful as he is demonic. Control of screen time, applications, location… in short, a real safeguard!
Even if I understand its usefulness, whether for cyberbullying or to fight against addiction to screens, I think that it is important for a teenager to have a certain freedom. Learning to deal with certain problems caused by technologies is also part of our learning because we will be confronted with them all our lives, we who grew up with mobile phones.
In short, despite their dangers and flaws, our precious electronic devices are part of our lives. I don’t think doing without it is the right solution, but simply learning to control our screen time while spotting the pitfalls online, so as to avoid parental control. Of course, sometimes this is necessary, so a family discussion with the aim of finding compromises would be ideal.
Let’s find a balance between freedom and security!
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