Regular_Ad_7432 t1_j9oxfnd wrote on February 23, 2023 at 3:16 PM

Why cant children read normal books anymore or play with Lego or other toys , why does it always has to be online 🤷‍♀️Kids are not better in school today or social behavior . So why keep letting kids be online all the time .

jcrave t1_j9pow7h wrote on February 23, 2023 at 6:09 PM

Lazy parenting. The only tablet time my kids get(7 and 4) are the educational tablets we borrow from the library and that's not too often. But I would say the main reason why my kids aren't on the internet yet is because we're way too damn busy. We've got school Mon-Fri, hockey practice on Saturday, swim lessons Monday after school, tae kwan do on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Both now want to play baseball during the summer and my oldest wants to do flag football in the fall. Fuck, I'm tired just typing that out. Sundays we like to stay home and recuperate, which involves playing legos and all that, but staying active really helps stay away from the traps of lazy parenting like giving a kid a tablet to keep them quiet.

Regular_Ad_7432 t1_j9pwcbd wrote on February 23, 2023 at 6:55 PM

Sounds like you doing a great job as parents 👏

almisami t1_j9q0vln wrote on February 23, 2023 at 7:23 PM

>play with Lego or other toys

Do I look like I'm made out of money?!

>why does it always has to be online

Because online has unlimited content so the child will theoretically keep playing forever.

>Kids are not better in school today or social behavior.

As a former teacher I can tell you that, while it does significantly reduce their attention span to a worrying degree, the main culprit of asshole kids are narcissistic and/or enabling parents that neglect/smother their kids to a point where discipline is impossible.

In my entire career I've had maybe 2 kids whose behavior didn't match the parents care and in both those cases some form of mental illness was involved.

> So why keep letting kids be online all the time.

Online is just a faster, more accessible version of the Mall's ball pit playground.

Soup_69420 t1_j9qvu3v wrote on February 23, 2023 at 10:34 PM

> In my entire career I've had maybe 2 kids whose behavior didn't match the parents care and in both those cases some form of mental illness was involved.

Flashbacks to my parent teacher conferences where the universal sentiment was concern over how someone could simultaneously be so smart and so dumb. I’d just tell them a good chef never reveals their secrets and they’d say, “that right there is what I’m talking about. What the hell does that even mean in this context?”