And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away
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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
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That’s too many kids. Poor things can’t get the parental attention they need
you're preaching to the choir dude
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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.
I mean there's other things besides brain rot. Also people did raise kids prior to iPads.
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I have friends with kids like that, and it’s scary. I’m obviously a fan of technology, but critical thinking might go down the drain if children spend all day in front of a screen at such a young age.
I genuinely think there should be a legal limit to when children are allowed independent access to JavaScript & Internet enabled technology. I would suggest twelve years.
Having it be law would remove probably the biggest reason children are drawn to technology initially today: social pressure and anxiety.
I didn't grow up with anything like this (and I'm pretty young... or I was at some point) and thank fucking God I didn't. I barely read today as it is, instead wasting time with screens and YouTube and shit like that; I'm happy I had the opportunity to consume hours and hours of time with reading as a child. Not just reading: I learned basically every knot that exists (I still have my copy of Ashley's Book of Knots), learned an absurd amount of physics (with textbooks! for fun! I wouldn't, couldn't, do that today), learned to program and use Minix (ok, that was highschool, so a little later), and even got into Marxism.
These are all opportunities I don't think I could replicate today, because I don't get bored in the same way today. Now, if I'm bored, I automatically look at my phone (...lemmy...), or open YouTube, or do something else equally stupid. I didn't have that option when I was young. We didn't even own a TV. I was forced to do interesting things, and I'm really happy I was, because I'd be an exceedingly illiterate boring moron if I hadn't read those novels and learned how the universe worked and understood why capitalism sucks.
Maybe I'm yelling at clouds and people will become interesting through other means, but it really frightens me how much dumber I've become. I don't want to imagine how much harder it will be for masses of gen Z and Alpha.
Ok, I feel like I got a little off topic there. Rant over...
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I mean there's other things besides brain rot. Also people did raise kids prior to iPads.
Yes, parenting existed before iPads. That doesn't imply that everything they used to do to cope with similar situations was correct, or better. Previous generations of parents used to do things that would terrify us now.
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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.
Yes, before the existence of iPads, autistic children could do nothing except scream and seize on the floor. Yep. Thank God we have iPads now, there is literally no other way to handle autistic children.
