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Anecdotally speaking, this is kind of true. Most parents just give up and instead of disciplining and raising their child. It’s just easier to give them a table
by xyst 3y ago
Anecdotally speaking, this is kind of true. Most parents just give up and instead of disciplining and raising their child. It’s just easier to give them a tablet loaded to the tits with “YouTube kids”, parental controlled Netflix, TikTok, and other short form video services. Have even seen children get access to unfiltered YT, TT, IG.
- realusername 3y agoYouTube clearly quickly became the world's biggest nanny. I don't think there's any way to undo that one anyways so I'm interested to see what will be the long term impacts of that in the future.
- 082349872349872 3y agoIt occasionally produces art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU EDIT: Mr. Burnham is vintage 1990, so he's a bit too old to have been weaned onto it
- nkassis 3y agoReplaced the TV from the 80s and 90s.
- gen220 3y agoNot quite. There was 1 TV in the median household in the 80s and 90s, which made TV a contested common resource from one point of view and a focal point of social gathering from another point of view. The median American household today has >1 internet-enabled screens, many children from the age of 5-7 have their own "personal device".
- AlexandrB 3y ago90s TV at least had physical boundaries on its use. Most people couldn't watch TV in the bathroom for example. Phones and the Internet can be used anywhere at this point.
- xyst 3y agoForgot to add: live streaming services as well. Twitch. Whatever Microsoft’s version was called at the time. And YT Live. Probably better of a nanny than YT vods.
- swalsh 3y agoPutting kids into a technology induced coma can be useful in specific situations... such as on an airplane. But it should generally be a last resort, and avoided. Many parents use it too quickly.
- pmarreck 3y agoour son's almost 3 and this is the use-case. 1) when he's sick 2) when on a plane 3) when we are at dinner with others and NEEEEED the break. Last resort.