When I worked bars and restaurants this shit pissed me off. You give a kid a phone or IPad instead of having a family dinner and teaching your kids table manners and how to act in public.
You know what's sad? Typically in my young Catholic community where there are many young parents with young kids, they're all doing a pretty good job restricting screens from their children, homeschooling them, moms stay at home, etc.
However I was at a sort of Catholic cafe one day with my mom, picking up some food from the counter, and in the sit-down table area I saw a young family with a mom, dad, son, and daughter. The kids were no older than 5 and they both had their own personal tablets plopped in front of them, watching or doing who knows what, while they were eating. Totally zoned out from the world. And even better, their parents were doing the exact same thing on their phones. Not even interacting with each other, let alone their kids.
I wanted to scream, run over to the parents and ask them why they can't have a nice meal together and face each other like normal human beings. But of course, you know how it is with spoiled, lazy parents these days. If you try to mention one bad thing about their parenting they will turn into raging, swearing banshees saying, "Don't tell me how to raise my kid!"
The rot has infected even the most "normal" and "conservative" communities in society.
if more people would force others to hear about how to live and love correctly, then eventually we would all be being told how to be the best. The world would improve!
I swear to the Good Lord above-the day the internet goes down for 6 to 12 weeks would be the best thing that could happen to the entire world.
I'm ready. Landline still active and hours of old videos downloaded to watch just in case.
I actually hope it happens. Soon. The world is too addicted to the internet and AI.
Time to go to a library for answers, folks. Yup! I'm 80 years old and still active. Hubby is 80 and works part time at Home Depot. The worst thing that happened to this world were the cell phone and tablets.
Laptops not too bad and towers not too bad, but the damn tablets and phones have destroyed the world.
No you're totally right. This is why I have an actual physical disk movie collection instead of relying on streaming. On streaming they can remove or change movies any time they please, but if you own it on disk it's yours forever unless it breaks.
When I grew up my parents said only video games during winter or when it’s dark. Otherwise I had to be out riding my bike, playing pick up basketball/football at the park etc.
Also back then there was no online video games so even if you were playing with a friend they were still with you in person.
even if you were playing with a friend they were still with you in person.
My kid used to have, and go to, LAN parties when he was in high school. All these boys would lug in their computers with assorted accoutrements and sit there all night playing and having fun.
I don't remember if they snacked on chicken tenders and Mountain Dew or not! 😄
Ahh, LAN parties were the best. And N64 parties, bringing all your friends over to play split-screen Mario Kart 64, Smash Bros 64, or Goldeneye 64 multiplayer. Kids really don't understand the things they're missing out on these days.
When I worked bars and restaurants this shit pissed me off. You give a kid a phone or IPad instead of having a family dinner and teaching your kids table manners and how to act in public.
You know what's sad? Typically in my young Catholic community where there are many young parents with young kids, they're all doing a pretty good job restricting screens from their children, homeschooling them, moms stay at home, etc.
However I was at a sort of Catholic cafe one day with my mom, picking up some food from the counter, and in the sit-down table area I saw a young family with a mom, dad, son, and daughter. The kids were no older than 5 and they both had their own personal tablets plopped in front of them, watching or doing who knows what, while they were eating. Totally zoned out from the world. And even better, their parents were doing the exact same thing on their phones. Not even interacting with each other, let alone their kids.
I wanted to scream, run over to the parents and ask them why they can't have a nice meal together and face each other like normal human beings. But of course, you know how it is with spoiled, lazy parents these days. If you try to mention one bad thing about their parenting they will turn into raging, swearing banshees saying, "Don't tell me how to raise my kid!"
The rot has infected even the most "normal" and "conservative" communities in society.
if more people would force others to hear about how to live and love correctly, then eventually we would all be being told how to be the best. The world would improve!
I swear to the Good Lord above-the day the internet goes down for 6 to 12 weeks would be the best thing that could happen to the entire world.
I'm ready. Landline still active and hours of old videos downloaded to watch just in case.
I actually hope it happens. Soon. The world is too addicted to the internet and AI.
Time to go to a library for answers, folks. Yup! I'm 80 years old and still active. Hubby is 80 and works part time at Home Depot. The worst thing that happened to this world were the cell phone and tablets.
Laptops not too bad and towers not too bad, but the damn tablets and phones have destroyed the world.
No you're totally right. This is why I have an actual physical disk movie collection instead of relying on streaming. On streaming they can remove or change movies any time they please, but if you own it on disk it's yours forever unless it breaks.
When I grew up my parents said only video games during winter or when it’s dark. Otherwise I had to be out riding my bike, playing pick up basketball/football at the park etc.
Also back then there was no online video games so even if you were playing with a friend they were still with you in person.
My kid used to have, and go to, LAN parties when he was in high school. All these boys would lug in their computers with assorted accoutrements and sit there all night playing and having fun.
I don't remember if they snacked on chicken tenders and Mountain Dew or not! 😄
We used to LAN age of empires 2! Great times!
Ahh, LAN parties were the best. And N64 parties, bringing all your friends over to play split-screen Mario Kart 64, Smash Bros 64, or Goldeneye 64 multiplayer. Kids really don't understand the things they're missing out on these days.
Exactly! I've seen that way too many times. :-(