We’re living in the age of cutting-edge technology. Millions of pieces of information are at our fingertips and our brains are in need of constant stimulation to keep us engaged and entertained. The upside of all of this is that our learning capabilities are infinite—any question can be answered with a quick and simple Google …
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Parents on airplane ask mom to take away her daughter’s iPad because their 3-year-old isn’t allowed to use his on vacation, toddler cried for 2 hours when she refused: ‘The parents kept shooting me dirty looks which I just ignored’
If you’re going to be strict with your kids, you must be strong enough to stand your ground when other parents are not as strict. Let’s say you refuse to buy your kid a smartphone until they’re in 9th grade. That’s an intelligent and responsible decision on paper, but it’s much easier said than done. …
Seguir leyendo Parents on airplane ask mom to take away her daughter’s iPad because their 3-year-old isn’t allowed to use his on vacation, toddler cried for 2 hours when she refused: ‘The parents kept shooting me dirty looks which I just ignored’
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 …
Seguir leyendo Excessive screen time causes 10-year-old boy to lose his Australian accent, parents defend their parenting choices: ‘The kid obviously is deteriorating’
Grandmother scolds mom for not buying her 8-year-old son a new iPad after he punched and broke his: ‘It’s unfair younger son has a tablet and older son doesn’t’
All actions have consequences, and unless parents are willing to let those consequences stand, their kids will have difficulty transitioning into adult life. A famous line of parents everywhere is «Money doesn’t grow on trees,» and they’re absolutely correct about that. Money only grows if you put it into a very specific type of investment …
Seguir leyendo Grandmother scolds mom for not buying her 8-year-old son a new iPad after he punched and broke his: ‘It’s unfair younger son has a tablet and older son doesn’t’
Parents let toddlers use noisy iPad during wedding speeches, get angry when fellow wedding guest tells them to turn it off: ‘The mother thought I was questioning her parenting skills and screen-time choices’
There is a time and place for an iPad. I am not young enough to have grown up with this useful technology in elementary school, nor old enough to have to decide whether I’m going to buy one for my children. I know that having ‘iPad kids’ is a stigmatized thing, and I understand why. …
Seguir leyendo Parents let toddlers use noisy iPad during wedding speeches, get angry when fellow wedding guest tells them to turn it off: ‘The mother thought I was questioning her parenting skills and screen-time choices’
The Wildest Unpopular Opinions of the Week (February 11, 2024)
Unpopular opinions: everybody has them, but some people are better at gauging whether their opinions are actually unpopular than others. Let’s play a little game; I’ll share one of my unpopular opinions, and you get to tell me whether it’s actually unpopular or not! Here we go: I don’t think going to therapy inherently makes …
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Gen Zer Vows Not To Raise iPad Kids Like Millennials Raised Gen Alpha
There is something very tempting about giving a kid an iPad to shut them up. It’s not easy being responsible for a kid all day long, and iPads can feel like a magical tool that enraptures young kids more than any other toy possibly could. Even if it’s just to make a kid stop crying …
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Entitled Mom Allows Her Four Kids to Blare Loud iPads on Airplane, Flight Attendant Saves The Day With Headphones
Nobody likes it when someone blares their music publicly for everybody to listen to. Even if you have your noise-canceling headphones, it’s annoying and attention-seeking behavior that gets on most people’s nerves. I believe some people do it for attention, but the vast majority do it because they don’t care about how other people perceive …
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People Debate Whether Parents Should Give Their Kids iPads at Restaurants
Every generation of kids inspires a different moral panic. When Gen Xers were kids, people freaked out about TV rotting their brains. When millennials were kids, people freaked out about video games doing the same thing. When we Gen Zers were little tots, everyone was very concerned about child leashes. Of all of these panics, …
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