At the very least, THEY should pay for them, not the parents.drawing blood in the process. She stopped when police arrived. The mother’s words: “I thought she was trying to kill me.” Mom is, by my estimation, a fairly level-headed individual, by the way.
https://www.nny360.com/artsandlife/familyandrelations/addicted-to-smart-phones/article_4da461fd-fd01-521b-884e-165a35621460.html
...My thoughts along that line were prompted by a mother recently telling me that when she confiscated her teenage daughter’s smart phone, the girl “went insane.” She attacked her mother — hitting, scratching, knocking her to the ground and
I have heard several dozen similar stories involving children as young as 10. In addition, I’ve heard of children attempting suicide, going berserk and destroying property both in their rooms and the general living space of the family (breakingwindows, ripping televisions off the wall, smashing plates and glasses, and so on), and disappearing for days on end — all in response to having their smart phones confiscated, and all symptomatic of literal addiction...
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