Let your children enjoy their childhood

this is a real fear i have

They will :( it isn't the same raising children anymore.

I wont let my kid have a smartphone till 15

Like hell Im buying my kid one of these new phones. Flip phone, thats what he/she is getting.

wah wah, you think you had the same childhood your parents had? or your grandparents? Not getting your kid a phone isn't gonna somehow make their childhood better. Imagine when you were a kid and all your friends were playing with marbles, pokemon cards, pogs, or whatever else kids were playing with at the time, and your parents saying "Ugh, these *insert item here* are ruining these kids childhood. No you can't have any, go outside and play with a stick and can like back in my day!" Meanwhile, every single one of your friends is playing with them, and now none of them want to play with you, because you dont have em and thats what they want to play with. You are just making it easier to ostracize them in a place where its already oh so easy to do to kids.

This is total bullshitery