Esther Tamardoe:

I got a phone only when I was 12. Even at that, it was given to me every afternoon at 2 p.m. and taken off me at 7 p.m. My school is an iPad school so we did not exactly need phones for zooming. We used Teams on our iPads and that would be it. Growing up as a child, I did not have a phone. My sister had one “Nokia blockia”. You would listen to some songs on that and play a few little card games. That was basically my childhood, along with watching TV. My little brother, however, is braindead because he plays Fortnite on a day-to-day basis and watches useless YouTube videos on gamers. He has just not had the childhood experience I had. He hardly goes outside and is basically inside all day. It is really important that adults restrict their children in some of these areas so they will experience everything previous generations experienced.