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Β Kids these days are not kids- they are either IPad kids who are on tiktok or social media all day, or the sephora kids. When I see kids like this I wonder how can a parent fail so much. These kids don't have childhood at all. On instagram I saw a reel today where a millenial was showing her kid before and after IPad and blamed it all on the IPad. The fricking IPad is not supposed to raise your children, you are. It's sad how these parents blame everyone but themselves.Β
Β I miss what childhood actually was. Now I'll describe my childhood- everyday me and my bestie were going on the playground to play, we went to forest to collect flowers so we can give boquettes to our family members, our neighboors were giving us lots of fruit and vegetables instead of candy, we were pretending to be princesses (we were putting on dressed, crowns, those plastic heels and we were using children makeup), we sang songs for children, not famous tiktok songs, our social media were the barbie magazines, we were wearing actual children clothes. My bestie is a year younger than me but we experienced actual childhood. Also me and my cousins were going to the riverside to collect rocks, to play sharks etc.Β
Β In one word childhood is not what it used to be and we need to bring actual childhood. One day when I have children I would do anything for them to have actual childhood.
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πͺ³β piyavicaaβ πͺ³
yess i totally agree with what ur saying and the other commenters are also making some rlly good points
i have a younger sister and shes also part of that generation of kids. its so scary and also sad to see but its like she doesnt even have the ability to use her imagination. she rarely plays with the hundreads of toys my mom buys for her and the rest of the time shes on her phone. AND WHEN I TELL U THAT THIS KID LITERALLY CANT USE HER IMAGINATION I MEAN IT ITS SO BAD. all of her entertainment has been served to her on a plate by her phone and she has lost the ability to do imaginitive play...
math_me
yeahhh, i remember my childhood with a lot of toys and stories, ``adventures´´, using imagination, anyway, with childish innocence, only seeing the adultization on the kids are so crazy and worrisome. They are just losing the childhood and the magic, the memories, the real contact with other (at least playing). I have to say that having the little contact i had with the internet without supervision, and this brought me some problems to this days.
(Sorry for the errors, im a total beginner in English, but this is helping me to pratice and learn too, sorry anyway) :)
it's okay! i understood what u wanna say
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Majoris
Big heads at Silicon Valley spend all their time research just how to suck us all into their products. Children are some of the most unfortunate victims of this..
These children still have the child like wonder and curiosity within them, but they don't know any other reality beside the internet. And parents -individually- can't be entirely to blame. Because this is a complete societal shift: If a parent let their child out the house and told them to "Go play in the park and be back before 6" today, they'd be seen as horrible parent that endanger their kids, although this was completely normal under twenty years ago.
This entire "Ipad Epidemic" is a result of Tech Corps realizing the more time people spend on their apps the more profit they make. It extend beyond individuals..
Johann Hari's Stolen Focus and Cal Newport"s Deep Work are good books on this topic and how to counter it.
SL1M
The part where you described your childhood was beautiful. One memory that always comes to mind is when i spent the night at my friend Brandons house and his neighborhood was filled with other kids our age who went to the same or other school in the district. We got nearly all of them together to play manhunt. Brandons neighborhood was huge and very open, no trees blocking the view and almost no one had a fence in the backyard so you could run and hide anywhere you wanted to. I was hiding in some bushes and heard someone coming, once they passed i ran into the street and i could see kids running and laughing out in the distance, the sky is painted orange and yellow with a slight shade of pink and church bells are ringing. It was pure bliss in that moment. Its what i always think being a kid is like, just simply beautiful. This was roughly around 2013, i was born in '02. I should find out what that dude is up to
beautiful story
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JEREMY
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are you from ohio or something?
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Nic
That sounds like a fun childhood and there is truth in that children are being raised by screens in an insidious way only recently made possible by technology.
I do want to add there is an economic element at play here. In this age, more families are having to work longer to afford less. There was a time when adults could order a home from a Sears catalog, and now there are talks of making a 50 year mortgage possible. There was a time when there was a single breadwinner of a family, and families could afford to have the other partner stay at home and take care of the kids, house, and chores.
So we now have families of two overworked adults without the energy to take care of the kids that, at one time, they were made to believe they would have the energy for...and screens offer a quick solution in lieu of expensive childcare, with some likely long term psychological effects I dread to see the research on one day.
it's sad that parents blame everything on the children or the phone, ipad or wtv.
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Vicky (Afourteen's biggest fan)
It hurts that actually it is the parents fault, many parents nowadays just give a phone to their children because they don't want them to bother them.
and always at the end they say it's the phone fault lmao
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my mom is like this
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milo<3
yes this, it is really sad. if i ever have children they will not have an ipad
same
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d3ath
(TW grooming and also bad grammar and maybe spelling?)
Now I'm 15, and I'm always online or doing work. I got a phone when I was in the 5th grade it sucked because it need wifi to do anything but I loved it at the time I would still go play outside and hang with friends and still do now. I didn't really get a working phone till the 6th grade when I was heading back to school after online and etc. and I noticed that everyone was so attached to their phones (granted I was too) later in
jr. high everyone was talking about getting F*cked and etc and having bfs. and here's me talking about Roblox etc. and all my classmates wearing makeup. (which yes is normal but it looked like "drag" makeup over the top) to where one day a teacher told a girl your to pretty to wear makeup and the girl got mad and started skipping. (This is like Don't skip but also the teacher had no right to say that) I didn't start wearing makeup really until this year and I'm not gonna lie it's fun but it's annoying because you're either really pretty with it or ugly without it.
What I'm trying to say is yes you can give your kid all the stuff that's trending and they could turn out COMPLETELY normal but at the same time it's the parents, not the kids. (or anyone which we have all been saying for years) But I don't think that kids( kids younger than 13+) should have ig and snap or TikTok because that's where a lot of grooming happens and then parents go and blame the kids or Snapchat when sadly it is the parents.
parents blame everything but themselves
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fr, ONE parent if I find the post I'll send the link but blamed the school for how her kid acted.
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if u find it send it to me
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d3ath
(TW grooming and also bad grammar and maybe spelling?)
Now I'm 15, and I'm always online or doing work. I got a phone when I was in the 5th grade it sucked because it need wifi to do anything but I loved it at the time I would still go play outside and hang with friends and still do now. I didn't really get a working phone till the 6th grade when I was heading back to school after online and etc. and I noticed that everyone was so attached to their phones (granted I was too) later in
jr. high everyone was talking about getting F*cked and etc and having bfs. and here's me talking about Roblox etc. and all my classmates wearing makeup. (which yes is normal but it looked like "drag" makeup over the top) to where one day a teacher told a girl your to pretty to wear makeup and the girl got mad and started skipping. (This is like Don't skip but also the teacher had no right to say that) I didn't start wearing makeup really until this year and I'm not gonna lie it's fun but it's annoying because you're either really pretty with it or ugly without it.
What I'm trying to say is yes you can give your kid all the stuff that's trending and they could turn out COMPLETELY normal but at the same time it's the parents, not the kids. (or anyone which we have all been saying for years) But I don't think that kids( kids younger than 13+) should have ig and snap or TikTok because that's where a lot of grooming happens and then parents go and blame the kids or Snapchat when sadly it is the parents.
ALI-CATβ
i was at a sandwich restaurant with my family and the table next to us had a young couple probably in their mid-20s and two kids the kids were throwing a huge fit and the dad was looking at his phone not even trying to console his kid the other son was playing with the Christmas decor and just throwing tinsel around and hitting the nutcracker against the table. then the younger one ran over to his mom and started yelling at her but the mom just stared and laughed at her kid then he ran over to his dad and started kicking and punching him while screaming they were making a huge scene in a restaurant the size of a small trailer house
me and my family quickly ate and left when we exited the building I looked back in the window and saw that the dad had just brought out iPads and the kids immediately stopped yelling :/
(sorry if this is hard to understand I'm not good at punctuation)
I hate how parents are being emotionally absent the situation could have ended a lot sooner if the parents paid attention. if I did that as a kid I would've been scolded so fast. :(
that's a really sad view
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xxRebellious_Emmaxx
As a 2006 born, I agree, though I will admit I started wearing actual makeup at the age of 6 (though back then, it was more of a dress up thing as I wasn't allowed to wear it to school unless it was Halloween and I had some bright colored lipsticks and eyeshadow palates and that was literally it). Still, I did have a childhood and wore those plastic Disney princess heels, played Adobe Flash games, played outside often, and watched plenty of reruns of 90s and 2000s children's shows like Hey Arnold and Kim Possible on TV.
i was born in 2008 and i can relate
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Biggest_Wouserβ
Exactly
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I agree. Just a couple years ago, I saw some group of girls that looked around 8-10 years old in Hollister wearing CROP TOPS and SHORT SHORTS. Totally inappropriate for their age.
And the drunk elephant spoiled brats who wreck the store to make "potions" and buy retinol? F THAT. My mom would whoop my ass if I ever did ANY of that
I can relate
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I once saw a little kid who was maybe around 6 or 7 or so wearing a crop top back in May 2021 when I went to a trampoline park. Yep, that's right, a literal prepubescent child wearing a crop top. I couldn't help but to feel disturbed upon seeing a young literal child dressed like that and I was left wondering what the hell was wrong with her parents for letting her wear something that only teens and adults should wear at such a young age.
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kitkatanddog
so many thoughts about this but I just woke up & my brain isn't working yet LOL I might come back to this later
okie
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Krzysiek
i was born in 2007 so i was one of the last lucky ones to have an actual childhood, when i was a young kid my only experiences with the internet were flash games and watching music videos on youtube with my mom, i got my first phone when i was 9 years old (that might sound early but most of my classmates already had phones when they were younger and i was always so jealous of them as a kid) and it was some htc windows phone i got after my mom when she bought herself a new phone, pretty much all i did on it was playing games like my talking tom and benji bananas, as a kid i used to go to playgrounds a lot and its so sad usually seeing playgrounds all empty nowadays
REAL
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I remember how even just 10 years ago, there would be several children at the park playing at the playground during the summer. I went to that same park on July 11th, 2023 for a few minutes and literally only saw 2 children there. I was shocked because you'd think there would've be more children there, but I guess not.
Also, I didn't even get my 1st cellphone until I was 11 years old and in the 6th grade.
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that's sad
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(sorry for any bad grammar or spelling :3)
08 here. dude from 5-10 maybe 12? I had the best childhood (when I was 11 I wanted to be grown so badly) my mom shut that down quick. I'm 15 so I kinda act grown but not to the point of going to a makeup store to be a brat. but I guess you can say mature??? My dad is the only one in my house (PLAYFULLY) who doesn't like me wearing makeup( which isn't much its super light you can't even tell unless I added lipstick and blush).
It's sad seeing kids younger than me not grow up similar to how I did.
okay so my niece has a lot of electronics she's 6 years old BUT she still goes out makes friends and does all the stuff I did. like for example she does cheer and has friends. she still has sleepovers and when she does ALL she does is play with her LOLS or play Roblox after and repeat. ( if it was warmer when she had a sleepover she went outside) when she does go out in the back all she does is run and play tag or go in the pool.
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