There's a huge difference between kids playing with toys or coloring books and watching tiktok on their iPads. Not even remotely the same, and it's concerning that so many perents don't seem to understand that.
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WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 6 months agoYea it’s the same for us, the complaints from people when they see a kid in public on a tablet are weird to ke cause I know as kids we always had stuff like toys (or we went to restaurants with like coloring maps and stuff).
Parents have been desperately trying to find things to occupy kids while they’re in public so they don’t disturb the people around them for years and now that smart phones/ipads are universal it seems like there’s finally something that will just keep the kids quiet for awhile without a lot of effort.
I think it’s important to pay attention how much you/your kids are spending on “screen time” but it feels really disingenuous to say stuff like the current generation is cooked because of ipads.
midnight@kbin.social 6 months ago
XTL@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
And the previous generations had TV. Interestingly enough boomers I’ve known are the ones who still had TVs on almost constantly post 2010 when more and more people are giving up watching broadcast TV.
proudblond@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes! This is my dad to a T. Meanwhile, my husband and I (oldish millennials) “cut the cord” fairly early on but more importantly, we actually have the TV off occasionally. That only happens in my parents’ house if my dad isn’t home. When I was a kid, he’d be working in the garage — where he had a TV — but we weren’t allowed to change the channel in the living room because he’d go back and forth and didn’t want to miss anything.
pycorax@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I can understand if they’re blasting the audio out from the tablet and disrupting everyone else but if they’re not I don’t get what’s the fuss.