Fact is, you're the problem. You're lousy and lazy parents.
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This is a fact. Its disgusting. Common excuses are that their kids are just so good at games/tech when really any idiot can be if thats all they are doing. Or that theyre just a game nerd, but its really bc anything else take actual parental energy and time. My gosh the worst is seeing kids with a device at meal time. How tragic and wrong. Gen z is a confused gen, and alphas are on their way to being as close to bots as humans could be with screens in their faces constantly bc of LAZY SELFISH parents.
I know for me I have to expend some actual energy to take my kids outside, do activities with them esp the younger ones and of course its 1000x EASIER to give them a phone, I have high energy curious creative kids that require a lot I feel like Im raising a tribe of Teslas or Edisons and of course its exhausting but its literally my job.
I sure was proud when one of my youngest found the wrench and adjusted it on the bolt to remove his own training wheels this week. One of my teens learning to drive is learning a stick shift bc a MANUAL is good for the mind. But theyre also tech knowledgable--funny that kids raised to do things requiring thought and skill can also be excellent with tech, maybe even more so bc their brains are actively used in life, they master tech rather than tech mastering them.
This is a sore subject for me, I rant about it a lot bc so many I know do it and also funny the parents themselves are usually tech challenged and cant do much beyond fb or twt.
ROGER THAT.
my kids are adults now, so cell phones weren't really a thing when they were little. But the computer was in the living room, as was the tv. No TV in the bedroom. I put my foot down about that.
I spent a fair amount of my growing up years as a military brat living in Germany. We didn't have American TV (this was in the 60s and 70s.). So I never got hooked on TV, and I'm still not a TV watcher. I'll watch here and there, but for the most part I find it annoying.