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Ban cellphones, Internet use in children’s and teenagers’ bedrooms, U.S. doctors urge parents | National Post.

Good argument, although hard to enforce especially for working parents while away from kids left at home.

As it stands, the question of whether to allow cellphones & internet use in kids bedrooms amounts to the same question as this.

Would you allow children to smoke cigarettes, never mind anything else in bedrooms ???

I don’t believe parents from generations past allowed it, nor condoned it. They knew better.

Conscious decision based on what felt right subconsciously.

While adults and parents are playing catchup with all things tech, one of the underlying problems might reside in the fact that they rely on tech savvy kids – their own kids to help them out when the crunch comes – if anything related to work deadlines at home. It’s complicated, but needs airing out.

Whatever the decisions, I think it resides on a personal individual household basis. It’s not enforcable – what you gonna do, incarcerate kids for not following rules. Putting the dangers out on the table in plain view of the fact of life and it’s consequences maybe more of a deterrent. Show it like it is, drive around town – see people plying their trades – drug addicts, homelessness, prostitutes and drug dealers and homicides(the blood, the guts and pain) police have to deal with. That should do the trick. Yep, ugly…. but hell it works bet ya !