Fact is, you're the problem. You're lousy and lazy parents.
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My child has an iPad but only for good reasons because my wife and I are deaf and we had a program on it that taught my child how to speak and learn speech, that was suggested by our child's speech pathologist. We also allowed my child to watch a few shows that we approve but of course, there is a time limit to my child using the iPad.
My wife and I talked about it and we're not allowing our child to have a phone because we saw a lot of kids being glued to the screen while not even doing anything physical or socially.
For example, I went grocery shopping and I came across a family of four. The husband was looking for something while the wife stayed with their two kids. One kid was in the big basket of the shopping cart while the baby, or maybe toddler? was in the kid seat up front. Both had phones and they were literally GLUED to their phones... Not sure if they were the parents' phones or their own personal phones, but when I saw the baby (or toddler) using the phone, they had it really, really close to their face. I immediately thought they may grow up not being able to socialize because not all videos would have people looking at them "face-to-face".
The parents looked "chic and savvy" and they probably thought with the early exposure to phones, they would be developing their children's motor skills as well as cognitive skills. While I do understand where they are coming from, if that part is true, I think there should be a time limit on that. The kids act like they're used to having the phones in their face ALL the time. I walked past the family several times during my shopping trip there and I have not seen one of the children look up to look around or talk to the parents while they push the cart around.
Yep, I feel bad for the kids who have phones at a very early age and have social media accounts at early age because their lives are being chronicled online for all to see, including the disgusting pedophiles. One of my childhood friends made a post a few years ago, announcing that their 6 year old child has a Facebook account and was asking for everyone to add their child...