Lookup body weight fitness. There is a Reddit sub and I think also a lemmy community. The body you build from that also is more lean. It can be very modifiable and doesn't require much fitness.
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.
Typical of the Russian state tactics is maybe what they meant and what you are saying. It's hard to separate the government and normal people sometimes in times of war.
I'm not discounting that kids are kids and are still learning impulse control, but I'm trying to teach them good spending habits or at least consider the value of what they are spending money on before they buy.
When I was a kid I didn't have much money so I did carefully consider purchases ( to an annoying degree sometimes my wife says still). I haven't forbidden them from buying anything, within reason, but they mostly have my frugality. I'm sure this is a journey lots of parents are on.
I've never let my kids play and luckily my kid's friend's dad also understands games and does research for things we don't know and we stuck together on this decision and on fortnight for our kids that are too young for it.
It also helps that I'm staunchly against micro transactions and lecture my kids about how spending real money on a skin is stupid every chance I get.
Lookup body weight fitness. There is a Reddit sub and I think also a lemmy community. The body you build from that also is more lean. It can be very modifiable and doesn't require much fitness.