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‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by fne8w2ah to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Lol it has nothing to do with cars. I grew up in the 90s without a phone and my city wasn't much different then than now. I was constantly outside playing and so were all the other kids

[–] Misconduct 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I grew up in the 90s and my entire childhood neighborhood is concrete now. The overgrown wash where we built forts is gone. The desert surrounding the area? Gone. It's just roads, shitty apartment buildings, and cement for miles. Maybe it didn't change for you but my kids could never grow up the same way that I did there. Most of the more wild areas are gone. Banished to the outskirts of town now. Hell, we don't even really have sidewalks and hardly anything is walkable due to traffic. It has everything to do with cars in plenty of places. There is literally nowhere for kids to be kids within walking distance of me now either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Few years ago when I played with kids outside in minecraft on phones.