Absolutely a major problem and stiff measures are required. No child should be allowed to possess a cellphone. They don't get to possess firearms or drive automobiles, so this is no different in terms of societal well-being. And it should be illegal to provide social media access to anyone under the age of 21. Parents who circumvent these restrictions should be charged with abuse of a minor.
The idea that cold turkey is intolerable is absurd. We live through volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, traffic accidents, all of which are far more traumatic that being deprived of internet media. Getting the children clear of this is as important as dragging them out of a pond filled with alligators, and needs to happen just as quickly. This stuff is seriously crippling our children with possibly permanent mental damage.
Children are children and should be treated as such. They should not be allowed to cosplay as adults. This is the logical outcome of letting children simply watch TV for as long as they want, because it keeps them out of one's hair. Adult indifference to the development of children's cognitive and social skills will kill our civilization.
I used to live with a first-grade schoolteacher who specialized in dealing with dyslexia. I would hear countless times of her frustration with parents who themselves were barely capable of sharpening a pencil, who seemed to think that the child's learning was entirely the school's responsibility and they had no responsibility whatsoever. This was 40 years ago...
I think it is a general moral and intellectual slovenliness. They also can't see the threat of democratic-socialist tyranny for what it is, either. Who do you think watches all the swill on daytime television? Slackwits. I've been watching the general mental character of the nation move steadily downward all my life.
Absolutely a major problem and stiff measures are required. No child should be allowed to possess a cellphone. They don't get to possess firearms or drive automobiles, so this is no different in terms of societal well-being. And it should be illegal to provide social media access to anyone under the age of 21. Parents who circumvent these restrictions should be charged with abuse of a minor.
The idea that cold turkey is intolerable is absurd. We live through volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, traffic accidents, all of which are far more traumatic that being deprived of internet media. Getting the children clear of this is as important as dragging them out of a pond filled with alligators, and needs to happen just as quickly. This stuff is seriously crippling our children with possibly permanent mental damage.
Children are children and should be treated as such. They should not be allowed to cosplay as adults. This is the logical outcome of letting children simply watch TV for as long as they want, because it keeps them out of one's hair. Adult indifference to the development of children's cognitive and social skills will kill our civilization.
I used to live with a first-grade schoolteacher who specialized in dealing with dyslexia. I would hear countless times of her frustration with parents who themselves were barely capable of sharpening a pencil, who seemed to think that the child's learning was entirely the school's responsibility and they had no responsibility whatsoever. This was 40 years ago...
I think it is a general moral and intellectual slovenliness. They also can't see the threat of democratic-socialist tyranny for what it is, either. Who do you think watches all the swill on daytime television? Slackwits. I've been watching the general mental character of the nation move steadily downward all my life.