Oh man, I saw a woman set her infant up in a high chair at a restaurant and then set her phone with AI slop on it right in front of that child while she talked to her friend. The baby looked like a zombie. I got the impression this was a regular occurrence
My son is 11. We never gave him access to screens until after age 3 and we never gave him screens when we would go out, which is frequently. He’s a normal kid and he converses better than most adults. I enjoy going out with him and mostly always have.
I am concerned however because there is a whole generation of people being raised right now that have never had a meal out without a screen first being shoved in their face. I witnessed this recently at a fancy steak dinner at the Gaylord hotel with my family in Orlando. Everybody at that hotel has kids and so they are at virtually every table in the restaurant and they ALL had screens, headphones, the works. What is this generation going to be like when they are older?
It’s like people have forgotten that they themselves somehow grew up without all this crap and just completely given up on the idea that with a little effort they could actually parent their kids and raise them to be socially intelligent people. It’s like they have chosen to raise zombies instead. I just don’t get it.
There’s definitely something of a cultural divide. In the circles we run in, none of the kids get access to screens like that. Our friends’ kids, our kid’s friends, kids at his school, my coworkers’ kids, pretty consistently everyone is on the same page regarding regulating screen time. As soon as we set foot outside our bubble though, reality hits
A guardian article that leads to the page of some weird looking advocacy group which finally leads to a like to the study which is self hosted, not a peer review journal, and is apparently funded by the advocacy group. Hmmmm.
HailSeitan@lemmy.world
on 27 Jun 12:52
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The review, … did not establish causal links between screen use and specific developmental conditions.
So…speculation about possible harms funded by a foundation set up by a Conservative
Not to be disagreeable, just out of interest: what do you think a conservative party would expect to gain? I suppose it might be an attempt to propagate a stereotype?
Garbage article hyping up fears of tech use. The claimed “study” is a conservative think tank study and the article is an “exclusive” so no one else is going to report on this. In other words, no one else thinks this is real news.
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Oh man, I saw a woman set her infant up in a high chair at a restaurant and then set her phone with AI slop on it right in front of that child while she talked to her friend. The baby looked like a zombie. I got the impression this was a regular occurrence
My son is 11. We never gave him access to screens until after age 3 and we never gave him screens when we would go out, which is frequently. He’s a normal kid and he converses better than most adults. I enjoy going out with him and mostly always have.
I am concerned however because there is a whole generation of people being raised right now that have never had a meal out without a screen first being shoved in their face. I witnessed this recently at a fancy steak dinner at the Gaylord hotel with my family in Orlando. Everybody at that hotel has kids and so they are at virtually every table in the restaurant and they ALL had screens, headphones, the works. What is this generation going to be like when they are older?
It’s like people have forgotten that they themselves somehow grew up without all this crap and just completely given up on the idea that with a little effort they could actually parent their kids and raise them to be socially intelligent people. It’s like they have chosen to raise zombies instead. I just don’t get it.
There’s definitely something of a cultural divide. In the circles we run in, none of the kids get access to screens like that. Our friends’ kids, our kid’s friends, kids at his school, my coworkers’ kids, pretty consistently everyone is on the same page regarding regulating screen time. As soon as we set foot outside our bubble though, reality hits
A guardian article that leads to the page of some weird looking advocacy group which finally leads to a like to the study which is self hosted, not a peer review journal, and is apparently funded by the advocacy group. Hmmmm.
So…speculation about possible harms funded by a foundation set up by a Conservative
Not to be disagreeable, just out of interest: what do you think a conservative party would expect to gain? I suppose it might be an attempt to propagate a stereotype?
Family Values™, probably
Garbage article hyping up fears of tech use. The claimed “study” is a conservative think tank study and the article is an “exclusive” so no one else is going to report on this. In other words, no one else thinks this is real news.