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Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback
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All of that you can do with a phone too. I do admit thought the argument of not losing it as easily since its on your arm makes sense.
Unless your kid, I don't know, takes it off for some reason and leaves it at school over the weekend. Hypothetical, of course. Hasn't happened to me once... or 4 times even.
Difference is the school isn't going to confiscate my kid's watch (yet)
I think the not losing it and easy to carry thing is the key point. If they have to at least keep it in a backpack pocket fine, but if it has any whiff of something distracting to do on it, many kids will get distracted.
Mine have not hit that age yet so I still have time to form my opinions and be informed. As someone who likes small compact things I can't lose, a watch sounds ideal.