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My son was a curious kid, a geography nerd, and watched a lot of educational videos on YouTube. Got his phone and now is addicted. Is even going bad in school.

by neves 6y ago

My son was a curious kid, a geography nerd, and watched a lot of educational videos on YouTube. Got his phone and now is addicted. Is even going bad in school. Sure there is a pandemic, but we have a lot of fights here.

ksec 6y ago
>Got his phone and now is addicted Isn't watching educational videos on YouTube exactly the thing most of us ( parents ) would want?
- justinclift 6y ago
  It seems more like he was watching educational videos on YouTube before getting a phone, and has since become addicted to other phone things?
  - thu2111 6y ago
    Parents always worry like this. Mine used to worry I was "addicted" to programming on the home PC. I'd say, no mum. I don't go outside and frolic in the fields like a Victorian-era child because we live in the middle of a giant housing estate in the North West of England where it's always cold and pissing with rain. My friends live a car drive away and we aren't into football, which is the only thing available to do outside around here, plus I read most of the interesting books in the house already, I've grown out of cartoons, the computer is more interesting than children's TV and definitely more interesting than homework, most of which is of obviously marginal utility when I become an adult. Or at least that's what I would have said, if I'd been articulate enough to know how. The child in this article doesn't sound "addicted" to her phone. It sounds like the wealth of social, creative and interesting activities available through it are just far more interesting than playing dolls with her mum. Maybe it's tough for her mum to accept that her daughter is growing up, but she had to grow out of that at some point - it was inevitable that something would replace it. Would she prefer if it had been TV, like it was for prior generations?
  - neves 6y ago
    Yes. Addicted to Twitter, instagram etc.

by neves 6y ago

ksec 6y ago

>Got his phone and now is addicted Isn't watching educational videos on YouTube exactly the thing most of us ( parents ) would want?

justinclift 6y ago
It seems more like he was watching educational videos on YouTube before getting a phone, and has since become addicted to other phone things?
- thu2111 6y ago
  Parents always worry like this. Mine used to worry I was "addicted" to programming on the home PC. I'd say, no mum. I don't go outside and frolic in the fields like a Victorian-era child because we live in the middle of a giant housing estate in the North West of England where it's always cold and pissing with rain. My friends live a car drive away and we aren't into football, which is the only thing available to do outside around here, plus I read most of the interesting books in the house already, I've grown out of cartoons, the computer is more interesting than children's TV and definitely more interesting than homework, most of which is of obviously marginal utility when I become an adult. Or at least that's what I would have said, if I'd been articulate enough to know how. The child in this article doesn't sound "addicted" to her phone. It sounds like the wealth of social, creative and interesting activities available through it are just far more interesting than playing dolls with her mum. Maybe it's tough for her mum to accept that her daughter is growing up, but she had to grow out of that at some point - it was inevitable that something would replace it. Would she prefer if it had been TV, like it was for prior generations?
- neves 6y ago
  Yes. Addicted to Twitter, instagram etc.