Somewhere right now there is a iPad kid watching skibidi toilet that will one day be president.
And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away
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WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Don’t judge the kid, judge the parents. Parents who should not be parents prefer to make their kids less of a burden to them by handing them over to the overstimulation square
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
100% My kids have tablets. The only time they get them is on road trips and plane rides. Some parents we know bring them to restaurants, family gatherings, you name it. It’s fucking annoying. Make your kid socialize or they’re going to grow up weird AF.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
When I was a kid, we’d get together with family and do our thing. Then we’d all eat a meal, and usually after the meal it was all right, everyone go do whatever you want, and the kids would usually go down the basement and play toys or video games, and adults sit around digesting, having some drinks, etc.
Fast forward to now, I’ll bring my kids tablets or whatever, and when the party is entering the food coma stage, I say do whatever you want, you’ve spent the last couple hours talking to people, or just existing around people who are 30-60 years older than you.
I feel like it always comes to this, but everything in moderation. I played a lot of Nintendo as a kid, and I grew up well adjusted (enough), and I don’t doubt my kids can do the same. For me, the whole tablet thing just stretches out the amount of time I get to hang. Kids get antsy. Shit, I get antsy and I’m an adult, but if letting them do whatever for 30-60m at the end of a party let’s me unwind with my family and friends, it’s fine.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 hours ago
Yeah or they’re really introverted they’ll at least use their imagination to disassociate.
Like I used to look around and imagine little beings making their way around objects and walls. Or looking into the distance and imagining things farther away were right in front of me, but the same size — so now you’ve got a miniature waiter running around the table, trying to catch the little beings.
My ability to zone out probably masked a lot of brain problems, but it did also make me a champ at sitting in waiting rooms while having the time of my life.
MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I was at a friends and family barbecue recently, and it just so happened none of the parents there brought tablets for their kids. It was just kids running around the backyard being kids. The parents generally let them do whatever but were attentive enough to prevent them climbing on the shed and stuff.
I can’t remember the last time there wasn’t some kid glued to a screen at that type of party. It was a joy to see.
laranis@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
And their parents allow them to blast the sound in public with no headphones. I can’t fathom the lack of give-a-fucks for their fellow humans (to include their own children).
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
i mean, if they were wearing headphones the kid’d still be blasting it. it saves the kid’s hearing at a minor social cost. tinnitus really sucks and if the parents have to take measures to prevent it, i’ll take being annoyed for a few minutes to keep someone else from getting tinnitus. it’s beyond a fair trade.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 18 minutes ago
Set volume limit then? Lol
Vespair@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Bro I watch Loiter Squad by choice, who the fuck am I to judge?
kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Fuckin squeakers
python@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’m not having kids, but this always feels like such a missed opportunity to let kids do something more mentally stimulating on that tablet.
Drawing apps and eBooks are right there! Hell, set up Termux and Acode up for them and let them program a bit (or like, I bet there’s a mobile version of Scratch they could use if they can’t read yet). Let them take photos and make little collages. Get them some music Synthesizer App so that they can tinker on their own little beats. Literally just show them that they have the tools to make something great instead of just shoveling in mindless content all day…Jankatarch@lemmy.world 51 minutes ago
If I had termux with ghc as a child I would NOT stop studying math.
turtlesareneat@discuss.online 3 hours ago
I am the donor for a lesbian couple. I’m pretty involved in my son’s life. I took him for his third haircut. Midway through, he was bored, and shooting me one of the angriest looks I’ve ever gotten from him. I took a pic and sent it to his mom.
“Oh god look how mad he is, give him your phone!”
What? He’s being quiet and learning how to be patient while a haircut happens. Some parents think reality is a BAD substitute for devices, it seems.
At least one night a week, he comes to my house and plays without any screens. We talk and explore the world.
mitch@piefed.mitch.science 1 hour ago
Makes sense when even adults use phones as a means to escape even a moment of boredom. How many adults use their phones while driving? That's one of the most mentally stimulating things I can think of, and people get BORED.
benjaminb@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
Totally agree!
I see the problem more in the parents. First, that these kids can use the iPad so much and second, that they can just consume on it. Like you said: Create, build and explore. Use the iPad, not get used by the iPad.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
bet there’s a mobile version of Scratch they could use if they can’t read yet
And for older kids apple made a scratch-like game for teaching their Swift programming language!
Scratch also works entirely in the web browser
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Good god this hits home
Months ago I was visited by a relative who brought their eight year old. She’s single and her boy is ever so slightly mentally not there. He’s smart enough but just not there with everything. Plus the mother is not capable of looking after him. So many wrong things and I hate to judge anything about it … both mother and son are having and will continue to have a hard life.
As we talked, the son spent the entire time with their device looking at YouTube videos.
At one point I wanted to try to make friends and asked him what he was watching … he mumbled and ignored me. I looked over at his video and it was just a completely nonsensical animation of characters running around like in a video game … I couldn’t understand what was happening or why, the cartoon animals were just mumbling nonsense, laughing, running and flashing lights and constant cuts to new scene after new scene. I looked at the kid and he was two steps away from just drooling.
I couldn’t believe it and it scared me. This device was melting any amount of brain power the kid had.
It made me think about myself and what the hell I was doing with my time.
It made me think that the world is all doing the same thing to one degree or another. Some are better, since are terribly worse.
It made me think that humanity is doomed.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Mechanisms of manipulation and control are getting more and more sophisticated and it’s really fucking sad.
Its like watching someone overdose. It sucks. And we don’t have language about it, even shitty language, like we do for drugs, so it’s hard to even talk to people about.
mstrk@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I have friends with kids like that, and it’s scary. I’m obviously a fan of technology, but critical thinking might go down the drain if children spend all day in front of a screen at such a young age.
random_character_a@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
In my experience, it’s either anime characters and flashing lights/colors or some streamer screaming his head off. Both equally nonsensical.
Rooskie91@discuss.online 4 hours ago
This is actually me when I’m in public and see someone judging a family based on exactly one frame of their lives.
I know a family with small kids who watch stuff like this on an iPad. One kid figured out how to get onto regular YouTube, and now watches tutorials to bypass parental controls. A true hacker in the making.
It’s been a nightmare for the parents tho, the kid figured out how to turn on all the game systems and plays stuff they’re not supposed to now lol.
Also, for anyone feeling high and mighty about the content from their childhood: youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI
ebolapie@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I think the problem people generally have with cocomelon or w/e is that it’s hours and hours of content that is replacing stuff like Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street. It’s okay to watch trash and it’s okay to let your kids watch trash but there’s a responsible way to do it.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Sometimes that iPad is there for you not the kids, try raising an autistic kid with unlimited energy, when you get them in a restaurant or bus, if the iPad is gonna keep him quiet and occupied, that means you don’t have to hear him complain. Kids aren’t robots, they’re people, and some have special needs and get overwhelmed in the fucked up world we made. If super kitties is gonna keep him relaxed for a bit so be it.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Most often the iPad is not for the kids but for inattentive Parents that just want to doomscroll in peace and not deal with their offspring.
Korne127@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I used to think exactly that and judge that heavily, but after my sister became a mother, we talked about this and she said essentially, that you don’t know them, you don’t know the day they’ve had and what they have done all day and what happened before. And that having a child is so hard that sometimes you just need to do things that are maybe not optimal, like giving them coke or letting them be on an iPad in public to avoid another hour of screaming, but that doesn’t mean they are not doing super much before. Because everybody has a breaking point and you cannot be perfect, but you don’t know the arguments or deals or time spent earlier, and sometimes it’s necessary to also keep care of yourself and relax a bit when you’re done.
moakley@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
You don’t know that it’s “most often”.
That’s just how you feel about it. You’re being judgmental but don’t have any idea.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
My colleague is real nice and all, but exactly why she gives iPad/phone to her toddler is exactly for the reason you mentioned. A lot of parents are lazy. And we wonder why the younger generation is turning right, because techno-fascists know how glued we are now to digital devices.
buzz86us@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Parking them in front of YouTube kids isn’t the right idea though… The content they show is just ridiculous.
HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Thanks for this thoughtful and considerate response. As a parent myself, your kindness is so appreciated!
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 hours ago
Hey, super kitties is quality content compared to YouTube. We have a YouTube ban in my house - the only exception is if it’s an actual show that can’t be found on streaming services.
The rest of this is spot on. We use iPads to keep our kids quiet in public places that are boring to them, like restaurants or planes.
We’ve all experienced an annoying kid in a restaurant, or a crying baby on the plane. It sucks, but usually that’s short lived. This post just seems like child-free snark/elitism signaling to me.
three@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
This look is solely for the parents.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Not really, it’s a kid, it should know that by using the Ipad it is destroying it’s capability to pay attention in the future, not to mention using an Ipad, a product built in a Chinese factory with suicide nets, really the kid should feel ashamed for supporting such a business practice.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 hour ago
and who gave the kid this iPad? Was it magically summoned into existence?
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Yeah, time to start canceling toddlers!
salty_chief@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Parents use to say leave your toys at home. I guess parents need the virtual babysitter with them at all times.
nevemsenki@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Meh, back in the days we’d watch youtubepoop videos and whatnot. Nonsense you like os funny, nonsense you don’t is brainrot.
Eq0@literature.cafe 9 hours ago
Quantity is an important factor. A half hour a day of brainrot isn’t a big problem, constant brainrot during all your free time is going to impact your concentration abilities, your mental image of the world, your ability to build meaningful logical connections and so many other mental development elements.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Exactly. We gathered together around my friend’s monitor, and laughed at FreddyW videos for 10 minutes, the continued our board game / rpg session.
Compare this to how some kids are watching mind numbing shit whole day on their personal screens. Very diffrent effect
kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
back in the day
Mofo how old are you, I am 33 and back in the day we didn’t have youtube, we went out and played football.
nevemsenki@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Old enough to know I’m way into the B side of my cassette,sadly.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
We used to watch garbage pail kids and treated ninja turtles like it was art. I won’t judge kids for what they’re into now
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
No. I mean, there’s a plave for low art, but we’re much better at artlessslop these days.
Decoupling art from content the same way we decoupled content from physical media.
CaJoasca_Baloon@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
I find myself in awe on how this much of brainrot can be watched by a little kid every time I encounter that…
roguetrick@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Learn to shitpost kid.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
The fun thing is you pull even worse faces when the brainrot is taken away from them and now youre stuck in an enclosed space with a screaming toddler running away getting wrestled back, jostling against your chair while youre trying to eat.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 12 minutes ago
You watch skibidi toilet on a corporate-controlled spyware machine known as the “iPad”
I read the anarchist cookbook on my RISC-V PineTab
We are not the same.