Parenting

On the new age verification for internet and social media users under 16 years of age. You have everybody else being inconvenienced because parents can’t control their children’s online activity.

Why?

I have watched all my girlfriends, all good mothers with lovely kids, I will add, when their children were babies and toddlers, giving them their phones and tablets to entertain them, so often with the words, “Oh, I know, I said I would never do that.”

Um? Er? Maybe we need to change parent's behaviour?

Now we have a problem with teenagers and the internet? We wonder why the internet is consuming their lives?

You have teenagers breaking into houses and stealing cars, repeatedly. Where are their parents in all of their crime? 15 year olds? I hardly ever left the house, at 15.

Shouldn't parents be responsible for looking after their own kids. Isn't that a parent's role? Should everyone else have to take responsibility for other people's kids?

Let’s start putting the responsibility back on the parents instead of putting it on everyone else. Why can't we do that? The govt could help parents with targeted programs.

You know, I wonder if some of the problem is that birth rates are historically low in all countries around the world and govts are paying incentives to people to have children they basically don't want? I don't know, you gotta wonder?