First, it is hard to explain the potential harmfulness of the internet in a way that it feels like a real danger to her. [ ]

Second, there are just too many children with mobile phones out there. We moved from South Korea where most Kindergartners already had a watch called "kid's phone" featuring instant messaging on side of phone call services and rather simple games. When my daughter entered school, roughly half of her classmates possessed a smartphone. The rate of children carrying around a "smart" watch or phone kept going up as my daughter advanced to the next grade until my daughter was the only one in her class and one of only a few in the whole school without a phone. I see a little bit less of that here in New York but still, there are enough friends in the classroom for my daughter to question how so many kids actually carry around these dangerous things and nothing ever happens to them. Yes, there might be a risk but it's a hypothetical one that only seldom realizes into something real.

How to protect my child from the harms of the internet

-- By EungyungEileenChoi - 05 Dec 2019

My daughter's Christmas list

Having put all the craziness of Halloween and the hassle with the big bird behind me, there's still the biggest (at least for my 8-year-old daughter) one left - Christmas! We have a tradition of making our two children write a letter to Santa and the main reason to do so was to figure out what presents they would most appreciate. However, for the last few years, I didn't feel the need to secretly open the letter addressed to Santa by my bigger daughter. For years, her only item on the list has been a smartphone and since I have been strongly contesting to the idea, this year she has shifted to Fitbit - or any other fitness tracker alike.

We just moved from South Korea where most Kindergartners already had their own mobile devices - a watch called "kid's phone" featuring instant messaging on side of phone call services and rather simple games. When my daughter was 6 and entered school, roughly half of her classmates possessed a smartphone despite the school's policy that no personal digital devices were allowed to be kept on within the school during ordinary hours. The rate of children carrying around a "smart" watch or phone kept going up and up as my daughter advanced to the next grade until my daughter was the only one in her class and one of only a few in the whole school without a phone.

But why?

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