And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away
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I used to think exactly that and judge that heavily, but after my sister became a mother, we talked about this and she said essentially, that you don't know them, you don't know the day they've had and what they have done all day and what happened before. And that having a child is so hard that sometimes you just need to do things that are maybe not optimal, like giving them coke or letting them be on an iPad in public to avoid another hour of screaming, but that doesn't mean they are not doing super much before. Because everybody has a breaking point and you cannot be perfect, but you don't know the arguments or deals or time spent earlier, and sometimes it's necessary to also keep care of yourself and relax a bit when you're done.
We might not know the parents, but we do know that iPads didn't exist in the past and people still managed to raise kids.
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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..Those are harder than the dopamine of brainrot content though. I struggle with it myself. I know programming is far more rewarding in the long-term, yet I often end up browsing lemmy instead due to the immediate dopamine hit compared to the delayed one.
These kids won't have any sense of self-control or understand why one is better for them than the other and the kind of parent that gives a child a tablet and just turns on YouTube does so because they don't want to actually parent. So while this is decent advice for proper parents, these kinds of parents aren't gonna do that, because it requires more work for them.
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Me when a friend of mine who's an engineer who sometimes works for the CERN unironically watches Mr. Beast and listens to Papa-a-pate (?, this nonsense k-pop song, it was popular some months ago...).
Like, yeah, you have the hardware, why fill your brain with malware! ;-;
wrote last edited by [email protected]Malware for the brain. Best description of brainrot I’ve heard yet.
E: any social media “challenges” pretty much fall under this umbrella as well.
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and who gave the kid this iPad? Was it magically summoned into existence?
Only cowards use /s at the end of their sarcastic comments.
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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.
But you also watched new grounds and shit like goatse
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Me when a friend of mine who's an engineer who sometimes works for the CERN unironically watches Mr. Beast and listens to Papa-a-pate (?, this nonsense k-pop song, it was popular some months ago...).
Like, yeah, you have the hardware, why fill your brain with malware! ;-;
Are you sure they don't work at SERN?
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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.
My child is autistic.
The only way to get him to be calm in a restaurant was to give him earphones and play something comfortingly familiar.Now that hes a bit older, it's a bit better. But he still frequently needs something similar in those kinds of situations.
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It's easy to judge from like 30 minutes in public, until you have an autistic kid and no support network.
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Our future. Get used to it.
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You're on lemmy. Such hypocrisy.
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It's easy to judge from like 30 minutes in public, until you have an autistic kid and no support network.
Thank you for saying this. I used to judge parents of kids on screens until I had my own. You never know what's going on and there's a chance that the 30 minutes of quiet that family is getting from the iPad is the only peace they've had all day.
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Thank you for saying this. I used to judge parents of kids on screens until I had my own. You never know what's going on and there's a chance that the 30 minutes of quiet that family is getting from the iPad is the only peace they've had all day.
Or it's the only meal they've had out in a month and it coincided with a sleep regression or something.
I have friends without kids tell me how they would parent and what they don't think is "good parenting" all the time. They have no clue...
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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.
read ... on my RISC-V PineTab
Because it's not powerful enough to play a video. /s (sorry, just teasing)
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Me when a friend of mine who's an engineer who sometimes works for the CERN unironically watches Mr. Beast and listens to Papa-a-pate (?, this nonsense k-pop song, it was popular some months ago...).
Like, yeah, you have the hardware, why fill your brain with malware! ;-;
wrote last edited by [email protected]Is he on the spectrum perhaps?
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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.
And do you trust the people that fabricated your RISC-V cpu?
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Is he on the spectrum perhaps?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Lol, no, he's just a classic "work hard party hard" engineer lad! If any ladies here live in Barcelona and want a (truly) kind hearted, hardworking man to mould a bit, shoot me a DM.
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Are you sure they don't work at SERN?
10/10 reference!
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I watch OneyPlays in my 20s
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Those are harder than the dopamine of brainrot content though. I struggle with it myself. I know programming is far more rewarding in the long-term, yet I often end up browsing lemmy instead due to the immediate dopamine hit compared to the delayed one.
These kids won't have any sense of self-control or understand why one is better for them than the other and the kind of parent that gives a child a tablet and just turns on YouTube does so because they don't want to actually parent. So while this is decent advice for proper parents, these kinds of parents aren't gonna do that, because it requires more work for them.
If you block any of the unproductive apps, and allow only the productive ones, and give the kid "free" access to what they have on the iPad, they will tinker with what's available
They might fuss around for a bit if they know there's other stuff, but ultimately they can't force your hand, and it should still be plenty fun to do the harder things
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Totally agree!
I see the problem more in the parents. First, that these kids can use the iPad so much and second, that they can just consume on it. Like you said: Create, build and explore. Use the iPad, not get used by the iPad.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The thing that would scare me the most is that the parents don't even know that such things are possible on their devices
Maybe my opinion of others is low, but I find it highly unbelievable most would even realize that something like programming is understandable, or tinkering around with music, or other stuff along those veins. Maybe drawing is still realistic though
But that would just go to show that there's a lack of all of this in the first place, even for parents
