Late night messages

Don't any of the grans worrying about intruders or fires in the night if their mobile phones aren't taped to their hands have landlines anymore? It's been a beautiful day today where I live but no one walking along my lovely treelined street seems to have noticed it. I work in a room in the front of my house and whenever I look out everyone walking by is staring at their phones, or tapping their phones. Even those pushing buggies with their children in them are ignoring them!

Obviously no mobiles while my kids were growing up but I would have been mortified if my mother had been telling tales about my children
Why do you imagine that a child could only have a problem or read unsavoury things at night ?
People are saying it’s nothing like reading under the sheets but although the content of what they re reading (which can be read any time of the day) may be different I used to read till silly o’clock (under the bed covers and then wake up about 6 to finish off before I went to school and I also remember sneaking my little transistor under the covers and listening to a radio Luxemberg late into the night and I managed to pass my 11+ and my GCE s
I think it is up to his mum to be vigilant or not and not up to grandparents unless asked
(My mobile is always on my bedside table at night) my friend older than me always has hers to hand in her bathroom too in case she has a fall

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So what if all adults leave phones downstairs overnight... if there was an intruder or fire....how are they going to alert emergency services... unless they all have landlines or security wired to the police

yes i said that earlier up the thread. This is what our fire safety officer said. People who leave their phones downstairs at night are IDIOTS. Not my words, his.

Yes, we’ve started taking our mobiles upstairs at night. We never used to, because we’ve got a landline in the bedroom.
Then I thought, what if an intruder cuts the wire before he breaks in, or a fire burns it! Over active imagination maybe, but our mobiles are now with us. We even have a spare charger.

the day my late husband retired from his 24/7 on call job, I unplugged the bedroom landline phone and binned it.

i never log out of facebook so it would show me being online all the time even when i am out. maybe you should ask your grandson first, all it would take is a simple text asking why he was still up at 11pm and see what he says first, i know you want to say to your daughter but you will loose any trust you have with your grandson.

some people seem unaware of the possible dangers of giving children unsupervised internet access.
it's not so much the time spent, though that may be an issue.
what is so different now, is who is communicating with them, and what is being sent/seen.

I doubt that many people are unaware of the possible danger of the Internet, really. It has many advantages too, though.

In any case, WhatsApp is not the Internet, and as has been said now many times, being logged in and actively using the service are not the same thing.

As I said upthread, my grandmother used to tell tales, and it was awful. I would have resented it if my mother had monitored my parenting too. Reporting a grandson is suggesting that his parents are not exercising due diligence, and there is absolutely no way of knowing this from the fact that his status is set to online at night.

H1954 I totally agree and keep my phone with me at all times especially now i am alone. When i first came out of hospital and was in isolation it was my life line and security blanket. I still felt so ill and was worried all the time incase something happened, so my phone gave me a sense of 'you can contact someone and get help' If i am in the shower my phone is in an place i can reach it if i were to fall, it's on my bedside table at night, in my pocket when in the garden even when hanging out the washing. If i fell i would not be able to get up unaided. In fact i am thinking of buying one of those small body bags to put it in as not all my trousers have pockets. They are a godsend to people like me on our own.

travelsafar I agree. Its a safety device when you are alone.

Although I said upthread, that I would mention it, to be honest, as long as parents have discussions about the dangers of the internet etc, I can’t see 11pm being any more of a problem than 11am, other than he should just be asleep. That would have been as important 30/ 60 years ago. Childrens sleep requirements probably haven’t changed.