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It's time to take the batteries out of the internet and put it up on the top shelf. The kids need to go outside and play in the dirt.

nixpulvis 5y ago
I'll do what my Mom always did and blame the parents.
- Krasnol 5y ago
  And you'd be right. It is the parents responsibility and they fail often. My SO works in a kindergarden and has to attempt to fix this. Luckily the fact that parents now have to leave their kids there for most of their wake hours does help. At least in good kindergardens. You can ask around, you'll see the problems that new media, as a tool for parents to keep their kids off their hands causes everywhere. Those ticks are just the peak of the ice berg here because there is no way around recognising the tool. The other damage is more subtle. We'll be faced with generations of media zombies and it's kinda frightening. I've seen a kid once left alone with a tablet in the waiting room while they've been visiting the doctor. I've been passing by and usually I say "hi" or something like that to the waiting patients but this kid didn't even blink. I've watched it over half an hour and it didn't move at all. Than the parent came out, said no word, grabbed the kid, the kid the tablet without it's eyes from it and they just floated out. This is 21st century parenting for you...
- tootie 5y ago
  My mother was a special Ed teacher for years. Specifically for kids with emotional/personality disorders. She always dreaded parent teacher conferences because the parents were bigger, louder versions of her disordered kids. But despite what you might think, it's less about the kids being raised wrong and more about genetics. Bad parenting is usually a result of the same behavior problems afflicting the kids.
tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
Touch grass, as they say
- raffraffraff 5y ago
  But not "that" way.
magpi3 5y ago
I think schools more and more will have to focus on teaching kids how to play and live without technology. These schools already exist of course, but I won't be surprised if someday they become more mainstream. Kids don't need to learn how to use computers anymore. They need to learn how to function without them.
- sam0x17 5y ago
  That said, kids also don't know how to use computers anymore. Kids growing up right now, many of them don't know how to operate a desktop computer and some of them may never touch anything that isn't a walled garden mobile device / tablet. For example, pretty much all millennials understand the difference between software running locally on their device and the "backend" components running on a server somewhere (and that something could be completely client-side without a server). Zoomers have a hard time understanding this distinction and ask questions like "how is this program opening without internet?" (I would know, I mentor 100s of them as a coding bootcamp mentor).
selfhoster11 5y ago
Adults would benefit from that also.

nixpulvis 5y ago

I'll do what my Mom always did and blame the parents.

Krasnol 5y ago
And you'd be right. It is the parents responsibility and they fail often. My SO works in a kindergarden and has to attempt to fix this. Luckily the fact that parents now have to leave their kids there for most of their wake hours does help. At least in good kindergardens. You can ask around, you'll see the problems that new media, as a tool for parents to keep their kids off their hands causes everywhere. Those ticks are just the peak of the ice berg here because there is no way around recognising the tool. The other damage is more subtle. We'll be faced with generations of media zombies and it's kinda frightening. I've seen a kid once left alone with a tablet in the waiting room while they've been visiting the doctor. I've been passing by and usually I say "hi" or something like that to the waiting patients but this kid didn't even blink. I've watched it over half an hour and it didn't move at all. Than the parent came out, said no word, grabbed the kid, the kid the tablet without it's eyes from it and they just floated out. This is 21st century parenting for you...
tootie 5y ago
My mother was a special Ed teacher for years. Specifically for kids with emotional/personality disorders. She always dreaded parent teacher conferences because the parents were bigger, louder versions of her disordered kids. But despite what you might think, it's less about the kids being raised wrong and more about genetics. Bad parenting is usually a result of the same behavior problems afflicting the kids.

tenaciousDaniel 5y ago

Touch grass, as they say

raffraffraff 5y ago
But not "that" way.

magpi3 5y ago

I think schools more and more will have to focus on teaching kids how to play and live without technology. These schools already exist of course, but I won't be surprised if someday they become more mainstream. Kids don't need to learn how to use computers anymore. They need to learn how to function without them.

sam0x17 5y ago
That said, kids also don't know how to use computers anymore. Kids growing up right now, many of them don't know how to operate a desktop computer and some of them may never touch anything that isn't a walled garden mobile device / tablet. For example, pretty much all millennials understand the difference between software running locally on their device and the "backend" components running on a server somewhere (and that something could be completely client-side without a server). Zoomers have a hard time understanding this distinction and ask questions like "how is this program opening without internet?" (I would know, I mentor 100s of them as a coding bootcamp mentor).

selfhoster11 5y ago

Adults would benefit from that also.