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[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Or Kevin is eight years old and his parents reasonably assume he is too young to have a cell phone.

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So he calls the parents' cell phones from the house phone.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It's what happens when you have a living house, and you buy it its own cell phone.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The house phone that didn't work because the phone lines were down?

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sadly I've seen toddlers glued to phones these days

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Usually parents handing over thier phone to shut the kid up while adults are talking/shopping.

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you really call them parents if they outsource all the parenting to an iPad?

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Just like our generation was raised by televisions they're just smaller and portable. Now with brainrot!