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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.