Smart Phones: Why Wait When He's "The Only One."
Smart phones\xa0present unprecedented challenges to parents.\xa0 Consequently, we are encouraged to "wait until 8th."\xa0 Head of Heights Mentoring, Joe Cardenas, wonders whether we should hang in there just a little longer.\xa0\xa0 \xa0 Have Smart Phones Destroyed a Generation,\xa0Jean Twenge (TheAtlantic.com) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/
"Psychologically, however, they are more vulnerable than Millennials were: Rates of teen depression and suicide have skyrocketed since 2011. It\u2019s not an exaggeration to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst mental-health crisis in decades. Much of this deterioration can be traced to their phones."
Teens find circumventing Apple\u2019s parental controls is child\u2019s play,\xa0Reed Albergotti (Washington Post) https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/15/teens-find-circumventing-apples-parental-controls-is-childs-play/ \xa0 \u201cThese are not rocket science, backdoor, dark Web sort of hacks,\u201d said Chris McKenna, founder of the Internet safety group Protect Young Eyes. \u201cIt blows me away that Apple hasn\u2019t thought through the fact that a persistent middle school boy or girl can bang around and find them.\u201d