Sticking Out Our Gyatt For the Rizzler: Are We Really Slang Fatigued?

On Reddit’s infamous r/teenagers sub, a user offers up a post with the title, «I f****** HATE being 13». They elaborate: «Yesterday my whole class had to stay behind for 30 minutes because some kid kept yelling ‘sigma sigma on the wall, who’s the skibidiest of them all.’» It would seem that even the first …
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Excessive screen time causes 10-year-old boy to lose his Australian accent, parents defend their parenting choices: ‘The kid obviously is deteriorating’

Everyone has a right to parent in their own way, but we also all have the right to think what we think about those choices. There are as many ways to parent as there are children in the world, and we will never understand the full scope of a situation from the outside. We can …
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‘I don’t think you guys realize how cooked we are’: Concerned relative causes controversy complaining about 14-year-old Gen Alpha cousin’s use of slang

Hand-wringing about the state of youth today is not a new phenomenon, but some like to treat it as one. It’s fair to say that the advent of the internet has only intensified this, seeing as it has multiplied the number of stupid things that impressionable young brains can absorb countless times at this point. …
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Educated adults worry that ‘reading and writing on a normal level’ is becoming a thing of the past for Gen Alpha: ‘The literacy level has dropped so much in last ten years’

The whole goal of school is to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. The bare bones of knowledge. But now, according to some pundits on Twitter, some of that is starting to disappear. We all know that social media is dwindling our attention spans and the proliferation of user-friendly AI has made it easier to cheat, …
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Phone-Obsessed Student Would Rather Let Their Phone Dwindle to 0% Before Letting it Charge Across the Room

Teachers have seen it all. Like warriors returned from battle, they have flashbacks of classroom insanity, ungraded papers, and dreaded detention slip deliveries gone wrong. Although there are many shining moments of student pride and genuine happiness in class, teachers often deal with more BS than they’re given credit for. In the age of cell …
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‘Go make rock soup or something’: Millennial Mom Hilariously Shows Her «Bored» Gen Alpha Kids What She Used to Do to Entertain Herself When She Was Their Age

You have to get bored to get your imagination to work.

‘The darkest timeline imaginable’: Gen Alpha toddler horrifies internet by browsing 4chan on iPad

Perhaps the biggest difference between a kid born today and one born thirty years ago is the relationship that they have with screens. While there’s no denying that most adults are addicted to their phones, they have nothing on the iPad kids who seem to have been glued to a tablet since the day that …
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‘They swiftly came to his defense’: Teachers Discuss Wholesome Trends Seen Among Gen Z Students in Heartwarming Thread

Everyone loves to hate on Gen Z. ‘They’re always on their phones. They don’t pay attention. They have no work ethic!’ are just some of the things I hear. Say what you will about Gen Z, but they have the courage that many of us could only dream of having. They embrace diversity, inclusivity, and …
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5-year-old stars the day with a chocolate bar and iPad time, commenters chastise parents: ‘What level of brain rot’

I was a picky kid. There wasn’t a lot I’d be willing to eat for breakfast, but cereal was one of them. I craved that hit of sugar in the mornings. I still do, though I realize that a bowl of cereal is not nearly enough to keep me sustained for more than an hour. …
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‘Let’s save the exorcism performances for another time’: Preteen Swiftie shrieks throughout 3 hour concert, faces judgment of the internet

Live music can be an emotional experience for everyone involved. I’m not ashamed to say that I’ve felt overwhelmed at some concerts that I have attended and even shed a tear or two. However, there is a difference between expressing emotion about the art that you love and being a massive inconvenience to everyone around …
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