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40% of people don't even cook or eat together. We go out as a family or order in like 2 times a month. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/05/th

40% of people don't even cook or eat together. We go out as a family or order in like 2 times a month. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/05/the-slow-death-of-the-home-cooked-meal/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f7207c5c5887 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/05/the-s... Phones and technology also get in our way and we as a society have become passive in parenting. The pay back when they are pre-teens is going to be painful. http://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/02/smartphone.aspx http://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/02/smartphone.aspx

rauhl 8y ago
> The pay back when they are pre-teens is going to be painful. And when they’re teens, and young adults, and older adults too. I think that misparenting & malparenting (and miseducation & maleducation) are to blame for a lot of our modern problems, e.g. school shootings (something which, so far as I can tell, essentially didn’t exist until the 90s, despite weapons being a huge part of American culture for over 200 years). I don’t believe we should ignore technology, and indeed it offers a lot for parenting (e.g. phones could enable parents to allow their children more freedom, rather than being used to grant them less). But as a society we’ve not figured out how to use it wisely yet. I also think that we’ve deliberately ignored the lessons of the past and of other cultures, but that quickly becomes an entirely different discussion …
- emodendroket 8y ago
  > And when they’re teens, and young adults, and older adults too. I think that misparenting & malparenting (and miseducation & maleducation) are to blame for a lot of our modern problems, e.g. school shootings (something which, so far as I can tell, essentially didn’t exist until the 90s, despite weapons being a huge part of American culture for over 200 years). Columbine?
  - zdw 8y ago
    Happened in 1999
    - emodendroket 8y ago
      ...Right, making it the most famous school shooting of the 1990s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States#1990s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...
- JoeAltmaier 8y ago
  Bombings and shootings have existed for decades. Its an urban legend that they are a modern thing.
  - baldfat 8y ago
    The first was in Chancellorsville, VA in 1840. The Urban legend is not that it is a modern thing but it is the frequency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...
    - JoeAltmaier 8y ago
      In the 1950's, anarchist(?) bombings were epidemic I understand.
      - icebraining 8y ago
        Also at the turn of the century (19th to 20th), famously giving the pretext for WW1.
- tootie 8y ago
  Purely anecdotal based on kids I see at my kids' school, but the next generation look like they will be absolutely amazing. I'd sooner blame our current biggest problems on the older generation. Our kids may spend a lot of time staring at phones, but they're far less likely to be religious fundamentalists or climate deniers. Donald Trump is a Boomer, not a millennial.
  - emodendroket 8y ago
    I mean, how do you account for all the 4chan guys who love Donald Trump, then?
  - dang 8y ago
    Please don't bring generational and political flamebait into HN threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- gowld 8y ago
  Semi-automatic rifles didn't exist in 1850. We had school lynchings, though. https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-racial-terror-permanently-altered-americas-demographics-1.5462682 https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-racial...
  - baldfat 8y ago
    We also had school shootings. They just weren't as deadly. There were 3 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...

rauhl 8y ago

> The pay back when they are pre-teens is going to be painful. And when they’re teens, and young adults, and older adults too. I think that misparenting & malparenting (and miseducation & maleducation) are to blame for a lot of our modern problems, e.g. school shootings (something which, so far as I can tell, essentially didn’t exist until the 90s, despite weapons being a huge part of American culture for over 200 years). I don’t believe we should ignore technology, and indeed it offers a lot for parenting (e.g. phones could enable parents to allow their children more freedom, rather than being used to grant them less). But as a society we’ve not figured out how to use it wisely yet. I also think that we’ve deliberately ignored the lessons of the past and of other cultures, but that quickly becomes an entirely different discussion …

emodendroket 8y ago
> And when they’re teens, and young adults, and older adults too. I think that misparenting & malparenting (and miseducation & maleducation) are to blame for a lot of our modern problems, e.g. school shootings (something which, so far as I can tell, essentially didn’t exist until the 90s, despite weapons being a huge part of American culture for over 200 years). Columbine?
- zdw 8y ago
  Happened in 1999
  - emodendroket 8y ago
    ...Right, making it the most famous school shooting of the 1990s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States#1990s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...
JoeAltmaier 8y ago
Bombings and shootings have existed for decades. Its an urban legend that they are a modern thing.
- baldfat 8y ago
  The first was in Chancellorsville, VA in 1840. The Urban legend is not that it is a modern thing but it is the frequency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...
  - JoeAltmaier 8y ago
    In the 1950's, anarchist(?) bombings were epidemic I understand.
    - icebraining 8y ago
      Also at the turn of the century (19th to 20th), famously giving the pretext for WW1.
tootie 8y ago
Purely anecdotal based on kids I see at my kids' school, but the next generation look like they will be absolutely amazing. I'd sooner blame our current biggest problems on the older generation. Our kids may spend a lot of time staring at phones, but they're far less likely to be religious fundamentalists or climate deniers. Donald Trump is a Boomer, not a millennial.
- emodendroket 8y ago
  I mean, how do you account for all the 4chan guys who love Donald Trump, then?
- dang 8y ago
  Please don't bring generational and political flamebait into HN threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
gowld 8y ago
Semi-automatic rifles didn't exist in 1850. We had school lynchings, though. https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-racial-terror-permanently-altered-americas-demographics-1.5462682 https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-racial...
- baldfat 8y ago
  We also had school shootings. They just weren't as deadly. There were 3 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...