Lmao the fuck it will. Technology enables you to not have to raise your kid, so the kids won't be alright. Humanity has shown time and time again that we are not capable of handling these issues, we'd rather just kick the ball down the road or ignore it entirely. (See: climate change, rise of right wing fascism, the existence of capitalism, loneliness epidemic, etc.)
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You are half right. We are capable, it's just not profitable enough so the people who's bottom line it would affect turn all their efforts into preventing us dealing with it.
I have already viewed it that way for at least a few years now.
Wow, raising kids soley on hyperinteractive screens, not ever reading to them, not even potty training them, never exposing them to any kinds of constructive play or even just in person social activity outside of the home, leads to astounding developmental delay?
We've got numbers coming out of the UK now that like a third of kids entering school can't eat or use the bathroom without assistance. Try to scroll on images and pages of paper, have never even encountered a book before.
Yeah, raising your kid on a screen and doing basically nothing else is child neglect.
Problem is you have to have both parents working because of landlord greed. The potty training part.is how you know it's not the phones, because you can watch skibidi toilet on the real toilet
The problem isn't necessarily the screens. These screens are a portal into the entire collective knowledge of humanity, after all. There is so much information that, as recently as 30 years ago, was impossible for anyone outside small niches to access, which is now available in just a few seconds. It is nothing less than democratizing information. And connections between people have also gotten a lot easier. We take for granted now that we can talk with anyone in the world, at any time.
However, it's the social media that these screens enable that is the problem, because they take the agency away from people. Inquisitive minds are no longer seeking out relevant information, they passively sit back and let the information come to them. Social Media sites hold engagement as their only value (just as TV media did before), and will shove absolutely anything in someone's face to get them to keep scrolling. It doesn't matter whether the content is enraging, uplifting, or even true: if it grabs someone attention long enough to see the ad, it is successful in their eyes.
We haven't really put many restrictions on our kids' screen time. (And how can I? I make my living looking at screens all day). But from the beginning, we have made sure our kids understand that we want them seeking content out, not passively consuming it. While the kids were younger, we only gave them access to social media like YouTube in a shared area, where we could see what they were watching and searching for, and watched with them. We curated their own mental algorithms, and if they stumbled on something we didn't want them to see, we explained why. I can't say they never succumb to brainrot, but they do seem to have developed the critical thinking skills that their peers have missed out on. (In other words, they know it's brainrot when they see it, even if they watch anyway!)
Isn't it already? Or am I living in some kind of parenting bubble? No one I know thinks it is ok to let their kids be glued to the screen. There are some parents (usually understandably exhausted single parents with multiple children under 6) who do put on kids music on youtube just so that they can tackle some acute problem or have a 10 minute break but otherwise no one thinks screens are great or even ok. It's used as a last resort mostly. Isn't that the norm? At least this is my experience for kids under 6.
Every time I go out to eat I see kids of all ages with their faces glued to a screen of some kind while mom and dad eat. Is that a last resort? It looks to me like laziness and a lack of engagement.
My wife and I went out recently and a nearby table had no less than three children each with their own tablets all on full volume while the 5 or so adults completely ignored this.
Three screens is bad enough but at least give them headphones. That is ridiculous.
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She's got it backwards: with the likes of RFK Jr in charge, dipping your entire child in alcohol will be deemed as harmless as using Facebook was before we knew better.
Making fun of fascists aside, there's nothing inherently wrong with "screens" and oversimplifying the world into "screens" and "not screens" will harm children MUCH more than help them.
ESPECIALLY in the case of neuroatypical children whose burdens can be significantly lessened with smart use of technology or catastrophically multiplied by treating screens as harmful things to avoid when possible.
Make it so both parents dont have to be gone all fucken day, and then again so that the working one only has to be gone for 4 hours and this problem will resolve. This is a symptom of a society grinded to the bone. Not a technology issue. For all this talk about the kids not a single fucken soul talks about how hustle culture rips families apart too.
Wait, when did we all stop doing the alcoholic baby thing?
Asking the real questions over here
Seriously though was that like a 1950s technique or just made up?
Come on Beatriz, please tell us how to solution to this is age verification and deanonymization of everyone on the internet.
The only winning move is to not play. Spend less time on the internet, and build community irl. Seems kinda obvious?
I would start with banning kid influencers. No content with underage children on the platforms. You can still create account, view, comment, chat, whatever but to upload videos/photos you have to be an adult. Platforms would have to remove underage content same way they remove porn or violent content. The age would be determined by algorithms (it doesn't matter how old you really are but what age do you look like). It wouldn't solve all the issues but it would be a start.
They said the exact same thing about TV back in the 50s.
I doubt there were kids watching 16 hours of genuine brain rot content.
In the future, they'll wonder how awful we must have been to use education as a weapon to make Sociopathic Oligarchs wealthier.
Why wait？
Dip a pacifier near you today!