And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away
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And their parents allow them to blast the sound in public with no headphones. I can't fathom the lack of give-a-fucks for their fellow humans (to include their own children).
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When I was a kid, we'd get together with family and do our thing. Then we'd all eat a meal, and usually after the meal it was all right, everyone go do whatever you want, and the kids would usually go down the basement and play toys or video games, and adults sit around digesting, having some drinks, etc.
Fast forward to now, I'll bring my kids tablets or whatever, and when the party is entering the food coma stage, I say do whatever you want, you've spent the last couple hours talking to people, or just existing around people who are 30-60 years older than you.
I feel like it always comes to this, but everything in moderation. I played a lot of Nintendo as a kid, and I grew up well adjusted (enough), and I don't doubt my kids can do the same. For me, the whole tablet thing just stretches out the amount of time I get to hang. Kids get antsy. Shit, I get antsy and I'm an adult, but if letting them do whatever for 30-60m at the end of a party let's me unwind with my family and friends, it's fine.
The annoying part is when the kids roll into the party iPad already blasting.
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100% My kids have tablets. The only time they get them is on road trips and plane rides. Some parents we know bring them to restaurants, family gatherings, you name it. It's fucking annoying. Make your kid socialize or they're going to grow up weird AF.
Yeah or they're really introverted they'll at least use their imagination to disassociate.
Like I used to look around and imagine little beings making their way around objects and walls. Or looking into the distance and imagining things farther away were right in front of me, but the same size — so now you've got a miniature waiter running around the table, trying to catch the little beings.
My ability to zone out probably masked a lot of brain problems, but it did also make me a champ at sitting in waiting rooms while having the time of my life.
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I am the donor for a lesbian couple. I'm pretty involved in my son's life. I took him for his third haircut. Midway through, he was bored, and shooting me one of the angriest looks I've ever gotten from him. I took a pic and sent it to his mom.
"Oh god look how mad he is, give him your phone!"
What? He's being quiet and learning how to be patient while a haircut happens. Some parents think reality is a BAD substitute for devices, it seems.
At least one night a week, he comes to my house and plays without any screens. We talk and explore the world.
Makes sense when even adults use phones as a means to escape even a moment of boredom. How many adults use their phones while driving? That's one of the most mentally stimulating things I can think of, and people get BORED.
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Not really, it's a kid, it should know that by using the Ipad it is destroying it's capability to pay attention in the future, not to mention using an Ipad, a product built in a Chinese factory with suicide nets, really the kid should feel ashamed for supporting such a business practice.
and who gave the kid this iPad? Was it magically summoned into existence?
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Bro I watch Loiter Squad by choice, who the fuck am I to judge?
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Somewhere right now there is a iPad kid watching skibidi toilet that will one day be president.
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And their parents allow them to blast the sound in public with no headphones. I can't fathom the lack of give-a-fucks for their fellow humans (to include their own children).
i mean, if they were wearing headphones the kid'd still be blasting it. it saves the kid's hearing at a minor social cost. tinnitus really sucks and if the parents have to take measures to prevent it, i'll take being annoyed for a few minutes to keep someone else from getting tinnitus. it's beyond a fair trade.
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This is actually me when I'm in public and see someone judging a family based on exactly one frame of their lives.
I know a family with small kids who watch stuff like this on an iPad. One kid figured out how to get onto regular YouTube, and now watches tutorials to bypass parental controls. A true hacker in the making.
It's been a nightmare for the parents tho, the kid figured out how to turn on all the game systems and plays stuff they're not supposed to now lol.
Also, for anyone feeling high and mighty about the content from their childhood: https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI
I think the problem people generally have with cocomelon or w/e is that it's hours and hours of content that is replacing stuff like Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street. It's okay to watch trash and it's okay to let your kids watch trash but there's a responsible way to do it.
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I was at a friends and family barbecue recently, and it just so happened none of the parents there brought tablets for their kids. It was just kids running around the backyard being kids. The parents generally let them do whatever but were attentive enough to prevent them climbing on the shed and stuff.
I can't remember the last time there wasn't some kid glued to a screen at that type of party. It was a joy to see.
my brother's got six kids. whenever he visits, first thing he and his wife do is go to sleep. they wake up for meals, then go back to sleep. now, i love my nieces and nephews, but i don't invite my brother over to be unpaid babysitters. i invite them over to see the family. so, we don't invite them over much anymore.
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I'm not having kids, but this always feels like such a missed opportunity to let kids do something more mentally stimulating on that tablet.
Drawing apps and eBooks are right there! Hell, set up Termux and Acode up for them and let them program a bit (or like, I bet there's a mobile version of Scratch they could use if they can't read yet). Let them take photos and make little collages. Get them some music Synthesizer App so that they can tinker on their own little beats. Literally just show them that they have the tools to make something great instead of just shoveling in mindless content all day..If I had termux with ghc as a child I would NOT stop studying math.
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i mean, if they were wearing headphones the kid'd still be blasting it. it saves the kid's hearing at a minor social cost. tinnitus really sucks and if the parents have to take measures to prevent it, i'll take being annoyed for a few minutes to keep someone else from getting tinnitus. it's beyond a fair trade.
Set volume limit then? Lol
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Makes sense when even adults use phones as a means to escape even a moment of boredom. How many adults use their phones while driving? That's one of the most mentally stimulating things I can think of, and people get BORED.
i "use" my phone while biking, mounted to the fucker, to play music (so i don't have to use my bell as often, also music rests my brain) and the other day i passed a kid pedaling, holding his phone in his lap and staring into the thing and jesus heelslut christ he wasn't even wearing a helmet i'm still worrying about him
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You watch skibidi toilet on a corporate-controlled spyware machine known as the "iPad"
I read the anarchist cookbook on my RISC-V PineTab
We are not the same.
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Set volume limit then? Lol
you may be assuming too much tech savviness for that amount of sleep deprivation, but you're completely correct.
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Makes sense when even adults use phones as a means to escape even a moment of boredom. How many adults use their phones while driving? That's one of the most mentally stimulating things I can think of, and people get BORED.
To be fair driving isn't stimulating at all (at least for me). Doesn't mean I use my phone while doing it though, because... I'm not an idiot
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The annoying part is when the kids roll into the party iPad already blasting.
Got a earn that shit. Also gives me something to say hey, get your shit together or no games.
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my brother's got six kids. whenever he visits, first thing he and his wife do is go to sleep. they wake up for meals, then go back to sleep. now, i love my nieces and nephews, but i don't invite my brother over to be unpaid babysitters. i invite them over to see the family. so, we don't invite them over much anymore.
That’s too many kids. Poor things can’t get the parental attention they need
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And their parents allow them to blast the sound in public with no headphones. I can't fathom the lack of give-a-fucks for their fellow humans (to include their own children).
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yes that's kind of a pet peeve of mine. I understand that sleep deprived parents sometimes need to put their kids in front of their phones. But in recent years I have noticed that they just blast the sound really loud and don't care about any other human being. I'm really shy but after almost freaking out on a train ride because of two different kids just watching something full volume I have asked parents to tone it down. They were even kind of embarrassed and nice about it. I have no idea how you can be so disconnected to your surrounding...
The worst were grandparents with a 2 year old kid during a kids theater and they just let the kid watch a show with the volume up. I mean what about all the other kids who are performing and you sit in the middle with a phone just blasting full volume. They wanted to stop him and then he started throwing a tantrum. They just laughed and were like oh he's so cute and we can't do anything about it. Fuck that's not cute, if you want to watch a tv show with volume, just sit outside of theater with your little brat! -
To be fair driving isn't stimulating at all (at least for me). Doesn't mean I use my phone while doing it though, because... I'm not an idiot
Driving is honestly very stimulating for me. I have AuDHD and it is one of the few times I feel calm because I can actively engage all of my senses. Something about keeping an awareness in your head of what's around you and your car really keeps me occupied.
