My grandfather ironically is an iPad parent. Me (Gen Z) and my gen alpha sister live with our grandparents, and my sister is now nine and had the WORST behavioral issues I've ever witnessed in a child. She screamed when she couldn't have a screen, told my grandpa to die, she hates him, she wants to kill herself, she hates her life and more. She's nine, and he has raised her on a phone nearly since birth. I have been stressing to my grandmother these issues and we are working on limiting her screen time- she has now lost internet access completely and can only play console games. Her behavior has already improved drastically. These screens are detrimental to children, especially with unrestricted internet access. We need to raise them ALONGSIDE technology, not WITH technology.
@@MappingRobloxAnimationsimagine being gen alpha, seeing these things about yourself, realising it's true and getting so mad you have to go reply to everyone
My youngest sister experienced those same “withdrawal” symptoms when her phone was taken away or we were out of service for more then a day. She couldn’t cope. I don’t know how it would go today if she tried- she still seems very attached to it.
@@kj5250 Pretty much addiction, we do need genuine "rehab" for people like this, the rehab should really include teaching kids about screen time, teaching parents how to moderate everything and monitor it. They're hooked psychologically to their phone as their entire external validation source sometimes, Not calling out your sister im just talking in general
my 11-year-old sister went to play with her cousins who are the same age. They had both iPhones and apple watches and were ignoring her. Broke my heart she was so disappointed.
Like play with toyssss, and board games or use imagination or like why not play video games together on a console if they want to do tech. I have so many fun memories with my friends playing multiplayer games on the N64.
@@alexaburksmy cousins bring their nintendo switch every time we visit our grandparents, and even though it gets really chaotic really quickly, my brother and i have fun playing with them (at the expense of everyone else's ears lmao)
@@aspillust At least video games can be interactive and involve making memories with other people, they are a lot better than just mindlessly scrolling or just staring at the youtube kids app or TikTok
Thats sad. I look back at my childhood and remember so many great things. All the imaginative stories i created with my toys, playing in thr street with othet kids, riding our bikes all over and making up games. Kids now dont have any of that, and that stuff is crucial for healthy adult development. Going to be so many mental issues in near future.
or they’ll look back to fucking SKIBIDI TOILET…SKIBIDI TOILET 😭 or that “rizz” shit while the best thing I remember was going to New York and spending time with family, or getting Peter Pipers for getting good grades on my report card!!
The sad truth about TH-cam today is that tablets are destroying various minds, even when you’re looking at something that had nothing to do with what iPad Kids would “watch”.
Hits even harder knowing the memories I had with my great grandmother, who passed away when I was 16. All the football games we would watch at her house, the family events we went to, it makes me so glad I didn’t have a screen in front of my face while it was happening, and spending time with family I have a short time left on earth with, and decades of waiting to reunite with them on the other side.
@@subplzorideleteurchannel7193 fr though I’m very greatful that I grew up with out electronics and that I got to spend as much time with my loved ones who are no longer with us
It breaks my heart too. I lost my Grandpa (mom's side) before my 19th birthday and my Grandparents (dad's side) don't really want a connection to me or my siblings.
For real, like I am on a device a lot, but like I do other things like sometimes go outside, ride the golf cart, play with my dog, and etc, like I’m not like those other kids ( also idk if 2011 is gen z or a idk )
Apparently it is Gen Alpha. 13 & 14 year olds are hopped up on the gen alpha trends; drunk elephant, mewing, etc. But there are some normal ones. Still Gen Alpha, but todays teens are better then today's children. @River-Is-A-Good-Girl
as a gen z, our generation isn’t the best with screen time and stuff but the gen alpha level of addiction to screens is INSANE. I’m not scared of them, they’re just there.
Your generation will be parenting the generation that comes after gen alpha. Do you think it'll be any better? Wisdom comes from not listening to whining TH-cam rants, and embracing the fact that all generations are as great and shit as each other. Just a unique, generational set of challenges. Boomer parents left many millennials to get in with it, and hey we were being sexually abused. Fun eh.
Another gen z, so true. I prefer console games, or retro gaming, but my brother uses an iPad. I’m grateful my mother doesn’t let him use it until he’s done with his work, but sometimes it’s sad when he just watches skibidi toilet on loop. Luckily he got Mario Wonder recently, that game seems to be distracting him from his iPad, thank god.
@@sammmbaNah the only politics most of gen alpha's ever gonna involve themselves with is electing either Cocomelon or Digital Circus for "Prime Skibidi Rizzler", they're so terminally online and neglected by parents they can't even distinguish fiction from reality.
That one mom saying gen alpha will be ruthless is the funniest thing I have ever heard... They won't have the attention span or the vocabulary to hold a argument with a single gen z.
My sister had her first kid two months ago. The whole time she was pregnant with my niece, I made sure to drum this into her head: *NO MOBILE DEVICES UNTIL PUBERTY.* After telling her that, I showed her this video, along with the "Gen Alpha Can't Read" video. When she got done watching them, she was utterly HORRIFIED. She immediately vowed to follow my advice completely. It's been only two months, but every night I sleep well knowing that my niece will at least have a chance at being a normal, functioning member of society.
Honestly that might go wrong. She might hit puberty late, i think she should have an ipad and have veryy limited access and screentime when she is about 8.
my sister in law banned cocomelon for my 4 year old niece cause she noticed the content wasnt teaching good stuff. she then deleted youtube kids from the ipad cause she noticed the content wasnt that great either. and my niece.... IS PERFECTLY FINE!!!! THEY DONT NEED TH-cam OR TIKTOK EVERY SECOND OF THE DAY!!
@arsenelupin1729sorry for your loss, and I’ve done that with adult content that’s popped up on my feed too, doesn’t work, you have to click “Do not recommend this channel” and “Not Interested” for better results ❤
@@collinkaufman2316 True, it overwhelms attention and floods your memory with all this random nonsense. No wonder kids nowadays have such a hard time remembering events and imagining things.
Let me tell you something as someone who works with ages 0-12 in childcare. Children are much easier to "deal with" when zombified by a screen. But they are not more well behaved. You'll realize that the instant that screen switches off, and without fail all of those children will become monsters unreasonably angry and struggling to function because there's no more screen. It's disgusting.
absolutely. when you are actually there for them and are teaching them problem solving skills, social skills, educating them, how to handle being in public, being bored and you support them emotionally they are way better behaved. When they can trust you, when they act in age appropriate ways, they know you will be there to guide them through, support them and help if needed. They will be so much better behaved and consciously aware because they will then have the tools to navigate situations.
This! It's an addiction! Don't get me wrong, Gen. Z certainly struggled with "put down the cellphone" a good number of times. That was a reminder for us. For Gen. Alpha, it's a necessity. These kids NEED to put the screens down lest they want to sacrifice any and all forms of social skills. These parents need to do better for their kids' sake!
Humans didn't evolve to interact with screens 24/7. Social skills are nonexistent. Adhd is far worse than previous generations who grew up with television.
ipad "parents" when their child grows up with crippling social anxiety, no childhood, no toys, no love, no affection, no creativity, no imagination, no outdoors, and being undereducated:
I played with toys and draw until I was like 6, and then I got a kindle for like 4 years until I was required to have a phone for middle school for safety reasons and you had to get a app from the school on the iPhone, and I gave my parents the kindle back:) I’m abt to be in 8th grade, and just because I have had internet access for a long time doesn’t mean I don’t know how to respect my parents, I love my parents and im glad they raised me the way they did and it’s my turn now to make them proud 😊
The other day, i saw a tik tok of this lady sharing how her daughter keeps entertained because she hasn't had a screen for over 2 years. It was so wholesome, and it was cute too! Im so proud of that lady and her daughter.
I grew up with the internet, but my parents were so careful to give me a lot of outside time and time with books and non-digital toys, and I’m sooo thankful for that now that I’m older, especially after seeing these videos
It's honestly so sickening that my mom (a Millennial) has decided to raise my brother and sister (both Gen Alpha) on phones. I am a Gen Z and I asked my mom what she did to me when I was being a bit rowdy and she said that she gave me toys, coloring books and watching SpongeBob on the TV. I then asked her why she gave my brother and sister devices when they were getting rowdy. Phones. My brother got his first phone when he was FOUR. But it gets even more insane. My sister got her first phone when she was TWO. TWO FUCKING YEARS OLD. She wasn't even in preschool let alone DAYCARE when she got a phone. I, on the other hand got my first phone when I was in 6th grade. So then I asked my mom why she decided to give phones to my siblings at a VERY young age. Her response was that parenting can get too tiring for her and the phone can teach them colors, shapes and all that shit. And to get this, I started to read around 4-5, while my brother started reading when he was around 6-7. Do you see a problem there? More about how the phone can "teach colors and shapes," yea my sister doesn't know what the basic shapes (circles, triangles and squares) are. What makes me so mad is that my mom had the time to actually be a parent and teach me that stuff while she decides that parenting is too hard and gives my siblings phones. What I'm trying to say here is that parenting has gone down so fucking much that I have to be the one teaching my siblings the stuff they should have learned when they were younger. One day I asked my brother why do you have so many devices, his response was, "Well if one dies then I can just go on another so I won't be bored." Y'all don't know how MAD I got when he said that He was basically raised to not be bored. Boredom is good because children can use their IMAGINATION FOR ONCE. Same with my sister, she is never bored because she has a goddamn phone in her hand basically all the time. EVEN WHEN SHE PLAYS WITH TOYS, SHE STILL HAS HER PHONE WITH HER. So please Gen Z PLEASE DON'T give Gen Beta iPads because WE will be the ones raising them.
i didnt get my first smart phone until i was in i think 8th grade maybe even 9th grade, and there were definitely times i couldn't set my phone down, but the difference is i spent more time reading books on my phone than literally anything else combined. no mind numbing scrolling just reading and friend group chats. and these days if i have some days off having with nothing to do and i find myself refreshing TH-cam or scrolling through shorts i feel mentally sick after about an hour and need to go do like arts and crafts, like i'll go color in a children's coloring book at age 23 with no shame. i don't have tiktok and never plan to, i'd rather waste my time coloring or painting then wasting time on the internet. and most importantly i love walking my dogs through trails and just being in real time in nature with my 2 best friends (my dogs). if i were to have kids which i don't plan to, daily walks with no electronics the entire walk is an absolute must in my opinion (usually 40 minute walks)
I had witnessed very similar circumstances as a gen Z with gen "alpha" siblings. My mother is gen X, so her upbringing was the fever dream known as the 80s. She got her first phone in her early twenties and would dangle that fact over my head when I got my first phone (a hand-me-down of course) at 14 or in grade 8, for both a birthday and Christmas present combined. And I'd have my phone confiscated for weeks at a time if I didn't complete assignments, which was because I had genuine ADHD left undiagnosed because I'm more inattentive (due to my mother's undiagnosed ADHD-I). My brother got a phone, iPad and his own flat screen before his 4th birthday, not even for his birthday, just handed them. And my sister had basically the same before she was even 18 months old. They are the most brain rotted children I've ever met, and I babysit, and work in early education. They are always triple screening, screaming at each other and make the most disturbing jokes about dead babies and Putin being "a good guy". They literally get to sit in their own living room with their screens for dinner. When I was growing up, it was family dinner, at the table, no exceptions. When their screens are taken, it's for less than a day. I've had my phone confiscated for 4 months a one time, and probably for a total of a year and a half during the four years I had one before leaving at 18. I also have a friend from HS, a fellow gen Z, who has iPad babies. Her two eldest are constantly glued to their screens and they're both less than 5 years old. My poor goddaughter has ADHD because of the neglect. And instead of addressing her needs, they smack her for needing attention. Unfortunately, gen X, Y and Z have all failed their gen "alpha" babies. Which is why I'm waiting until I'm 25 before having my own crotch fruit. So I have the patience and knowledge to raise my children effectively, so they'll be reading, speaking, and comprehending at the same rate I did as a toddler. I could read at 4 as well, knew my shapes and numbers, could count to 500 before 5, when my peers were just learning about 100 at 6. If my kids turn out to be as intelligent as me, they'll have a leg up over their generation. Best of luck to you and your future children/niblings.
I didn’t have phones growing up as an xennial - but I experienced neglect - so I also taught my sister to read at 4/5 - when I was about 10/11. I was left home to babysit while my parents worked. It was just us locked in a house w a TV, all day every summer. Now in some states that would be illegal!
@@cottoncandywithbread5244I guess they wanted kids to take care of them when they get too old but look. They can't even read at the age of 6 ☠ agree with you tho️
Back when I was in middle school, we were still allowed to use our phones during class breaks, and I genuinely have good memories of those times. Then I realized it was because we still socialized and played together: if we were playing games, we played multi-player; we put music and came up with our own choreos, we went crazy over 1D, BTS, whatever the rage was, TOGETHER. So, a few years ago, when my country completely prohibited phones during class breaks, I thought it was an exaggeration because I didn't feel like it ruined my time with friends. Later, I realized it was because by middle school we already knew how to play, we already knew how to socialize because we spent our childhood, our elementary with no phones, just playing and we liked and were used to it. But these kids they don't ever know how to play, how to socialize (and I say this as a shy awkward person) they never learned self control and as long as they have a device they will shut down everyone around completely and that's why the only answer at school is prohibiting it completely.
My mom actually used restaurants as a parenting tool for my sister and I. Back when they used let kids eat free, she would take us out and we learned very quick that good behavior earned dessert. Yeah, despite the dessert being free, she would not allow us to order if we did not behave. You know, consequences. Looking back, it was a good way to teach rowdy toddlers how to engage and be patient. Despite being a single mom without tablets or cellphones, she made time to parent so these parents got no excuse. These children do not need a tablet, they need crayons and glitter glue.
Teaching kids that good behaviour earns treats, and bad behaviour means they’re not deserving of a treat can lead to eating disorders tho :/ Most of the most recent and scientifically backed parenting advice I’ve read is that food *should not* be treated as a reward or punishment. Food is food. Be it a main course or desert, it nourishes your body, and you deserve that even if you’ve been “bad” Edit: I just wanna add that I’m not trying to criticize your mom or how she raised you. You mentioned she was a single parent, and goddamn I can’t imagine how hard that is. I’m only saying that we’re continuing to learn more about child psychology and development, and these methods are no longer recommended by many professionals
They can't leave a child unattended at a restaurant. What if a creepy person/pedo goes up and snatches the child away? The child can't react because he's too into the iPad to even know that he's being taken away.
@@vindemia deserts normally have *some* nutritional value even if it’s mostly sugar and unhealthy ingredients. Teaching kids that food can be “good” or “bad” is like, step 1. of acquiring an eating disorder (trust me, I’d know🫣)
Man I don't even know what to do. I'm scared for my younger step-siblings. My mom gave one of them, who is 5 and in kindergarten, a phone with internet access. She now has to wear glasses. The second one, who is 2, is falling down the same path. My mom hasn't done anything to stop it. She just laughs at what they watch. I'm concerned for their well-being. No one deserves to go down that path. I'm just asking for some advice. Please.
@@Ezziesfavoriteguy Ok, this sucks, however it has been proven that bad eyesight isn't necessarily caused by looking at screens (correlation does not equal causation), instead its actually not getting enough sunlight at an early age that is one of the main reasons for having bad eyesight (not the only reason though). So obviously in this case the kids aren't getting enough sunlight because they're being raised with parents who don't care about them but this would happen if they were inside reading books or drawing all day as well.
@unfortunatefish3322 yeah, I just wished that my mom would actually PARENT them instead of shoving a phone into their faces whenever their mood slightly shifts....
I feel like getting bored is a good thing sometimes. As much as the feeling itself sucks, you kinda need boredom in a way, it's a great motivator for finding creative things to do or make.
That is so true. Sometimes I get tired of being on my iPad (I’m a teenager don’t worry) and I just have to turn it off. I did this one time and just laid on the floor in my room staring at the ceiling. When I do get bored of my iPad I go outside with my brother and we just roam around because I can’t drive yet. But once I do I will be out all the time 🫡
@@erimator17 What do you do on the ipad? Is it mostly watching videos, like youtube/tik tok and some social media stuff? I know that's a dumb question, but I've never even owned one tbh
@@465markoNot them, but iPad's are actually quite great for work and school. The apple pen, despite getting memed on for its exorbitant price, is actually a really great stylus. A pretty large amount of my classmates in uni use an ipad for note taking, emails and sometimes even for their requirements. Versatile things, ipads are.
I took a class this last year, it was reading and writing class. And I can remember this one story. It was written in the 50s about the future. And these parents invested in a smart home when they found out they were having children. They practically let the house raise the child, and the old nursery is 3D. It could make it seem that you were at the beech, or the desert, or the rain forest. And when the parents shut the room off because they wanted to take a break from the house doing everything for them, the kids pitched a pit and killed the parents. I can't help but feel that by the time people realize and start to act, that they'll be so brain-rotten, that they will act entitled to it.
Every time I go to Walt Disney World, I see children in strollers being pushed down Main Street in Magic Kingdom glued to an iPad. YOUR CHILD DOESNT NEED COCOMELON IN DISNEY WORLD.
Wow. And really it gets to the point where the child almost “needs” it. Their brains are now hard wired to function with that level of stimuli, so being pushed around Disney and just observing their surroundings is not stimulating enough, and they’ll kick up a fuss and say they’re bored 🤦🏻♀️😔
I see babies and small children glued to ipads or phones whenever I go out it's crazy it's becoming normal for parents to let a literal infant watch tiktok or yt shorts
THE WORLD WHERE IMAGINATION HAS BECOME FIT INTO A TANGIBLE FORM, AND THEY HAVE THE AUDACITY TO WATCH COCOMELON THERE? WHERE FUN IS PURELY SOURCED FROM THE MAGIC TINKER BELL LEFT ACROSS THE PARK? HOW?!
I work at a store and once a mom came in w an about THREE MONTH OLD BABY in a carrier. An IPAD MINI was propped in front of her. THE POOR THING DOESNT EVEN KNOW WHAT IT IS! She barely knows anything about the world yet and she’s already having brainrot shoved in her face! I felt sick seeing that
YES! I see this all the time! When I was out with two friends, saw this woman with a child in a stroller with the wmans phone in front of his face, I say "poor child" one of my friends hears this and looked over at the pair and gave em a dirty look. it's disgraceful!
Bruh, as a guy who played hockey for more than half my childhood, it really saddens me that children like this aren’t noticing the absolute joy of playing/watching the sport.
Seeing all those horrifying hockey injuries up to an including what happened to Adam Johnson a few months ago of is enough to turn anyone off the sport. And I say that as a Czech person
im a kid born in 2012 and i was given an ipad mini at the age of two but i wasnt obsessed with it. instead, i would use it like a phone and take pictures at museums, vacations, etc. i would watch youtube starting a young age too but all i watched was mickey mouse, mlp, pj masks, and funny cat video compilations, nothing "brainrot-ish" and i kinda hate seeing videos like this knowing kids just a few years younger than me are growing up with stuff like this. few years makes a big difference in what kids grow up with and its honestly crazy.
I feel like this is the consequence of what an individualist society we live in. The iPad moms I’ve met seem to lack any energy, patience, or the capacity to interact with their children at all. They find it tiring because they’ve likely had little to no support and are ultimately sacrificing their children’s long term wellbeing for short term peace.
These are also people who had kids that they just don't want to deal with because they were expected to procreate. There are multiple factors that go into this.
@@oreofudgemanin other words, they're not smart enough to think for themselves. Typically, the less intelligent you are, the more children you will have.
As a millennial parent of two gen alphas, I wholeheartedly disagree that children with iPad in restaurants are more well behaved than those without. When we go to restaurants I deliberately leave their tablet at home, that way I can teach them patience while we wait for our food. When we are dinning with other adults my children talk amongst themselves, so much so they've developed a beautiful friendship and I love that for them. Parenting is about being intentional, my generation seem to hate parenting but demand everyone to see them as great parents.
We are similar 👏🏻 and there’s a difference between being “well behaved” and a zombie staring at a device. That’s not a sign of good manners or behavior.
While not a parent, but ut a 13 yr old boy I greatly appreciate that my parents taught me discipline and patience. Ant teaching me skills before I had a device. I fell that thier actions has affected me greatly. Also just seeing kids walk around with phones in hand and 9 yr olds sitting at restaurants with thier iPads. We went to macyos to remember my mom’s brother who died in a car accident. And the table right next to us had 3 children watching TH-cam with the volume cranked and there was nothing we could uld do because the parents didn’t care. It’s just silly how they can just let their children just do that.
EXACTLY. i grew up with NO electronics but the cartoons on like a Saturday in the morning. i went outside, i hiked, i interacted with my family. i was never given an ipad when i threw a fit, or at the diner. i would eat my food, and if i threw a fit i was put in the "naughty corner". i lived life in the moment. my first phone was late 6th grade and it only had 1-3 simple games (ex. pacman), camera app and simple messaging. i was ONLY given it so i could stay after school and communicate with my family. in the car i would play i spy for hours, chat, and watch raindrops "race" each other. even now with a phone that has plenty of options and things to do, i always know when to put down my phone and live in the moment. i have self control because of the way i was raised.
As someone who grew up in the 2000s, I also appreciate that I grew up and went through childhood without the negative influences of technology, and with good parents who taught me good manners and habits. Back in those days the most advanced technology people carried around were flip phones, I remember as a kid I would sometimes ask my parenta for their flip phone to mess around with when I was bored, but because there simply wasn't much to do, it wasn't a bad experience as I had to innovate to entertain myself with what little it offered, often I would go to the phone camera and start messing with the filters and settings which fascinated me as a kid. World clock and the currency converter tool also fascinated me. At restaurants my parents taught me to not goof around and talk to the other people at the table, so even at a young age I developed an interest for having discussions with people on various topics. I remember I often had discussions about astronomy with my uncle, we were both fascinated with astronomy and I rambled on about what little I knew about the topic back then. But at least it provided for good quality family/relative time. I also remember critically studying the furniture and utensils at restaurants when I was bored back when I was a kid, that was a good way for me to ease the boredom without disturbing others. Looking back, especially after seeing these videos of gen alpha being completely consumed by their devices, those simpler times back then really were the good times.
I am gen-z and I work in a pediatric medical center. These children are not even capable of standing on a scale without their ipad. I’ve had 6 month old babies not be able to be separated from the screen. They will scream as soon as you take the iphone cocomelon away from them and won’t stop until the screen is brought back. It is so shocking to see 9-10 year olds who cannot speak to me because I’m not the ipad. Parents laugh as if its so funny… but I find it incredibly sad.
I remember getting a broken flip phone at the age of 10. All it could do was play different sound effects and ring tone options. I was absolutely mesmerized for days. I can’t even imagine the overwhelming stimulation an iPad must provide at an even earlier age. I feel for these kids, they can’t choose their parents.
When I was 8 or 9, I got my first iPhone which was an old phone of my grandma. I wasn’t allowed to have any social media’s so I would just play games on it. I still can’t understand how parents allow their 10 year old kid to have Instagram or TikTok when I was allowed insta by my mom at the age of 14 (art account). Seriously social media has a horrible impact on a poor child’s brain, especially Insta and TikTok. I tell this by an experience by myself installing a not really famous social media at the age of 12 and with it having a horrible effect and trauma on me. I feel sorry for gen alpha tbh
The kids ignoring their grandparents hurts me so badly, I lost my grandfather after Christmas last year and I think kids need to appreciate their grandparents more.
Damn that's depressing :'( Most of my grandparents were dead before i was even born, with the exception if my paternal granddad, who died when i was 1 y/o Sometimes i wonder what it could've been like if they lived just a little longer, especially my maternal grandma, and how happy she would be to have properly met me, my brothers and our baby cousin
It’s just sad, and it makes me mad….they should appreciate their grandparents, cause guess what?! I never got to meet my own…they live very far. Before they all passed away, I’d always say “I’m going to go visit them when I’m older!”….but that didn’t end up happening…..I miss them every day…and I wish I had more time with them…❤
Me and my siblings ignore our grandparents but it’s not because of technology it’s because all of our life our grandpa refused to say that we existed and our grandma just emotionally abused me and my sisters saying that we belonged in the kitchen and that i (age13) is supposed to be getting ready to get married and is always saying that im ugly and should get plastic surgery so that I don’t have a small chest and a small butt. So that is why my siblings and me have ignored our grandparents
I lost two of my three surviving grandparents* within eight months of each other and I feel the exact same way. I’m a young millennial/old gen-z, so I wasn’t quite as attached to technology as kids these days are, but I still feel guilty for not being present with them as much as my siblings or cousins could because I moved so far away from them for college/work/school. *edit: the fourth grandparent passed away from cancer at age 77, when I was 4.5 years old. It still hurts to think about how little of them I can remember. The other three lived well into their 90s (one died at 92, another at 95) and my last surviving grandparent just turned 90 a couple of weeks ago.
I couldn't imagine my childhood memories being a screen and blinding light instead of playing in the dirt and pretending that rocks and sticks could be anything I wanted, I'm still a teen and I honestly miss the times were I could sit in my bedroom and look at two toys and play for hours and hours without getting bored or tired but now I scroll for an hour and I'm exhausted from doing nothing at all.
Just imagine 15 years later gen alpha would remember their childhood looking at a screen for the whole day, no friends, no toys, no social life, no cartoons and story books, no affection of parents, crappy attention span. I am a 2008 kid, one of the last Gen Z i also got a phone when i was about 4 but my parents always monitored me and i spent most of my childhood in cartoons, playing outside, gadgets and friends. I spent my childhood alongside technology not with technology. Atleast i could tell my children about my happy childhood where's the Ipad kids would tell they used to watch those crappy cocmelon and skidpi toilet.
I will not be surprised if these kids visit their iPad and put their actual parents in a nursing home and their actual parents are like “wE RaSeD YoU” and their kids are like “who are you again?”
It’s so scary to see the ignorance in those millennial parents and, at the same time knowing that so many teachers all around the world quit their jobs due to burnouts, bullying, not being able to get through to those kids and not getting payed enough for what they do
I'm 37, and I was finally able to get my own iPad last year... 😭 But yeah, I feel that many Millennials were raised with the idea that you HAD to have kids when they reached adulthood, whether they were ready for it or not. It looks like many of em were not ready and had zero clue on what goes into raising a kid that will be well prepared later in life to be an adult ready to take on what they please. I myself don't want to raise kids because I went through some abuse shit from my parents and now that I'm free, I'm essentially playing catch-up on life while healing. Don't think I will do a kid any favors if I were to have them now.
THIS! I think so many people from our generation (I’m 35) still felt pressured and thought they HAD to reproduce, so many were not ready to be a parent AT ALL… I also chose not to have kids, I don’t really want that at all 😅. I hope younger generations don’t feel pressured into having kids if they don’t want to. This is the result of that, parents who don’t care about raising their kids. And a lot of emotionally unintelligent people teaching other humans the same flaws.
Yes, I feel like we were pressured to follow the same steps as boomers without realizing that the world wasn't the same where many families had 5+ children before the parents hit 30. I'm 33
Around 2000 the daytime talkshows were still immensely popular. A common topic were "out of control" teen girls desperate to have a baby to love them. Childfree and 30, I couldn't relate. Another thing were those self-exploitative rainbow parties many teens were having. But yep, now these babies are all grown up asking questions of your peers.
@@ellyberryyup, I’ve had multiple cousins have kids in the 40s. Some planned, some by accident. I had one cousin get pregnant after she got her tubes tied 😩
My mother has been a teacher for 38 years, she has taught everything from kindergarten (5-6 year olds) to 6th grade (11-12 year olds). Her recommendation is no screens at all until 5, then no screens unsupervised until 8-9, 9-13 may be unsupervised but have a set limit on content, 13-17 unsupervised but conduct device checks to make sure they are being safe.
I'm a gen alpha, and its actually sad that so many people just are on their i-pads all day. go outside, play with toys, come on. its actually horrible that people rather i-pads over anything else.
This has been my biggest issue! My son is turning 2 in May and I was asked from family members if they can get him an iPad for Christmas and I said absolutely not he’s a freaking one year old. Thanks but no thanks. I am terrified of him becoming an iPad zombie. I want him to go outside, play with his toys and get bored. I refuse to ruin his childhood because I am being lazy. I do give him a little time if tv time to watch Bluey or Ms. Rachel, but that’s all the screen time he gets which is not a lot since we are on routines and he’s mostly exploring.
This was me too! I’m a millennial mom and my gen x mother in law literally begged me to let her buy my son a tablet for his first bday. I told her no. She was so pist. I was like, shouldn’t this be the other way around 😂
I lost my grandfather when I was eleven, but it was so heartbreaking because when my grandmother died, my grandpa couldn't handle his soulmate dying and died two months later. It was the worst year of my life. I wished they where here so I could tell all my accomplishments. Seeing the kids ignore their grandparents is just sad.
7:13 As a gen zer who was technically an ipad 5 year old, I find these devices incredibly harmful to our youth, I myself had my innocence taken away from given that tablet and 0 supervision, worst mistake my parents made, no matter how hard your kids are to deal with, devices are never the way to go, yes you can show them tablets at a young age, but ones more strictly for learning, and supervise their time and what they're doing.
I am part of gen z and had an ipad at 5 but my parents closely monitored what I consumed and how much time I spent. We could only play games on it 2 days a week and I had to get parental approval whenever getting a new game (which didn't happen often). The main games I played were angry birds/cut the rope and I was NEVER allowed on youtube or the internet.
Growing up sister had an iPad and I had an iPod touch. (R.I.P iPod touches) Our parents knew how to discipline us correctly, by letting us have the devices only on weekends. We’d put them up on the fridge at about 8 o clock every Sunday night. It got to the point where my sister and I didn’t have to be told to put up the devices, we just did it and didn’t throw a fit. You can’t even touch a kid’s iPad now with your pinky finger without them attacking you.
I'm a kid and i use a tablet. I use it for develop my art, drawings and creating stories, creativity, imagination, and hard work at a very young age. I use my tablet to communicate with friends too, because i cant in real life, they're away from me. (I'm living on another country and its hard to make friends because i dont speak french), so, i communicate and play with them, i never play alone. I use my tablet too to get distracted when my parents are fighting. I dont like getting into trouble, and i know i cant do anything about that even if i try, so instead of crying and making it worse, i just go upstairs on my room with my sister and we just do anything fun to get distracted together. Thanks for reading, keep going, you're a great person, have a good day ❤ (sorry for the bad english, i speak spanish)
If kids need to be glued to an electronic device, get them a kindle fire. It forces kids to read a certain amount of books or time before they can play any games. And if they run out of time, they’ll know they have to read and actually get education before having fun online.
I used to have that when I was young! Especially as I was assigned an IEP. As a gen z, it helped me and my parents, as well as my grandma and aunt READ to me and made me learn efficiently like that. Plus the kindle fire helped me with pronunciation and helped with words I struggled with!
dear ipad parents! when my parents gave me a device at a young age with no restrictions or supervision, it messed me up in the head! all my friends can relate! the internet is a horrible place and your children WILL witness horrible things. i was exposed to violent and inappropriate material online at the ripe age of 9 and some of my friends saw it even earlier than that. PARENT YOUR KIDS OR THE THERAPIST WILL HEAR ABOUT YOU.
I saw a lot of gore when I was at the ripe age of 6, specifically HTP and MLP horror. I don't want to point fingers at my parents because they're wonderful parents and do their best which is great! But I wish they supervised me a little more at the timw. They never made the same mistake again with my siblings, don't worry! 😅
Personally I agree. I got exposed to pornography(specifically softcore and hentai) at ages 4-10. I’m hypersexual rn and I rly made some of my friends uncomfortable! :( honestly just don’t give your child an ipad AT ALL until there at least 6
I was having a conversation with my mom about how a lot of gen alpha kids are so spoiled and how they will never experience the time where having a smart phone was rare/semi-rare and she immediately compared me (gen z) to gen alpha and their abandonment issues with their iPads because I just wanted to listen to music while I was cleaning. And that's one of the huge differences between gen z and gen alpha. We can put our shit down when we're asked to and we can usually put it down ourselves when we decide "that's enough internet for today." I am SO glad I grew up in the early 2000's/2010's with no access to the internet until like 2013 (the earliest I can remember anyways). My limited screentime is something I would've never thanked as a kid, BUT THANK YOU LIMITED SCREENTIME FOR MAKING ME AVOID ACTING LIKE THESE KIDS!!!
@TheUnitAcenice rage bait buddy! anyways fun fact: an artist in seattle by the name of bill braun gained notoriety for his hyperrealistic paintings that appear to be made out of construction paper, however all of these paintings are 2D and its all based on his incredible skill for shading and textures.
Sorry most of genZ is just as fucked as genA, both generations are having all sorts of issues not seen until millennials got on the scene. Being raised online, inside, and with no real thought or creativity required, IQ rates are dropping dramatically just in the last generation...and that's going to cause a whole new set of really big problems when the younger generations are not smart enough to keep vital infestruxture working as the older experienced generations die off.
@TheUnitAce blah blah blah, I was one of them iPad kids. Look at me now I’m f*cking fine and a normal person! Everyone is just overreacting, kids are kids and have addictive personalities. This is what everyone was saying about tv and sh*t when I was little, no one talks about that anymore because guess what? It didn’t rot people’s brains or make them idiots. Same with iPads. Hope you have a wonderful day!
I do find a lot of Gen Z addicted to tech (as a Millennial born in '87). I truly can remember a pre-internet/pre-cell world. It began changing when I was in HS, so by the time Gen Z entered the world, things were really changing. I will say that when it came to cellphones, they weren't super "smart" until Gen Z was hitting MS age. Most people did not own IPads.@TheUnitAce
I feel like my devices slightly help me focus, especially videos like these, that i can just listen to while doing chores and stuff. But using a device at the dinner table is CRAZZYYY
As a mom, I was shocked how much screen time is forced on kids by schools. Like for winter break they kept telling parents to make sure to let our kids get time to play on their recommended sites/apps.
I think they’re saying don’t force your child to study the entire winter break. Sure limit their screen time but let them play. I think that’s what they’re saying?
@@Justcallmerosa so the websites are educational and each student has an account created by the school. Teachers track how much work each student completes on these sites. They spend school hours working on completing these tasks online. When they aren’t completing tasks fast enough they are required to do them at home. These online tasks are very time consuming so that means more screen time and less time for kids to just play.
I’m in school to be an educator myself, and I want to teach English, specifically. I wanted my lessons to focus around self expression through writing, with a heavy focus on journaling & using pen and paper for notes. They just won’t allow it. The curriculum since the pandemic (in my district at least) practically mandates kids use chromebooks. They say it’s more “inclusive” this way- I don’t see it. You can buy composition notebooks for 50 cents at practically any grocery store, it’ll be the most inexpensive thing on your shopping list, but no. The thousand dollar laptops and tablets are the “inclusive” way of teaching kids. What on earth are we coming to? I feel like a “back in my day” grandma before crossing 30.
@@probablyjustsnailsoh my god, it's so sad to read how this "inclusive" nonsense is killing your creativity. I bet none of those people have never written a letter or season's greetings by hand. I find this truly concerning.
@@probablyjustsnails My kid’s TK and kindergarten teachers didn’t even sing to the kids, instead they played them TH-cam videos on the projector. I remember one of my favorite things about kindergarten was the singing together with the teachers during circle time. Now it’s everyone stare at the screen together.
That's how i was raised, though, i will admit, i was VERY apprehensive to me obtaining a smartphone because i was afraid i'd become addicted to it and try to text and drive or whatever else brain on airplane mode nonsense you expect to happen. I can successfully say i have not texted and driven, at least.
I believe in letting them run around in the backyard (WITH SUPERVISION) outside, heavily filtered family computer and non-digital toys inside as early as possible; flip phone from grade 4 onwards; and finally their own smartphone at around puberty
I think it’s ok to have an iphone in middle school/late elementary school if you have proper restrictions, but you definitely shouldn’t let them be glued to their device watching TH-cam/TikTok.
I got a little Nokia flip phone when i was like 3 or 4 IIRC(now 17, also i played the SHIT out of Dungeon Hunter 3 on that thing, good times), and my first touch screen when i was i think 7 or 8 It's not that bad to give kids tech in late elementary school or middle school, it can even be healthy, as long as you ensure they're getting other forms of entertainment I was absolutely ENAMORED with reading Shakespeare at night, or i'd take my little Hot Wheels to church, or my toy Power Rangers when i went to dinner Technology is an AMAZING complement for kids' learning, hell i learned to speak english all on my own because of my ps2(i live in Brazil so that was all we could really afford at the time), BUT IT SHOULDN'T BE THE ONLY THING A KID DOES
I’m 14 (freshman in highschool), but all of my older siblings are relatively older Gen-Z (oldest is 27, youngest besides me is 17) so I grew up with all of the typical kid stuff. We played outside for HOURS, we made mud pies, we made bathroom potions, we played “spies” at Christmas where we would all try to steal candy, we played with American Girl Dolls and Squinkies, I was borderline obsessed with Club Penguin, Webkinz, Minecraft and Poptropica. I look back on those memories fondly because I know that I had the most fun I could’ve. It makes me sad that these kids won’t ever get to do rhat
Your childhood sounds amazing! I'm so glad your parents raised you and your siblings right and that you have a beautiful relationship with your older siblings :)
Man, glad I’m not the only one who remembers Squinkies. My parents (especially my dad) always talked about how I’d lose them because they’re so small, which actually did end up happening to quite a few of my favorites. :'D And Webkinz! I had probably over 100 at one point, but had to get rid of most of them. Glad they still live happily on the ~14 year old account my dad made for me ages ago, even if I can’t remember my password. I’ve been searching the house for one of my secret codes, though!
I didn’t have an IPad till I was 9. I was raised by play dates, coloring, drawing, playing with toys, learning, reading, and writing. To see babies that aren’t even 1 years old have Phones and iPads is wild. A screen will not educate a child, the iPad will only keep disconnecting the child from reality, till they become a zombie. Instead of these children playing and having fun and using their creative imaginative brains, their eyes are glued to an iPad. Just imagine those iPad kids when they think back to their childhood, how they should’ve been having fun with kids their age and being creative and enjoying being social but instead the iPads kids’ only memories are of them being glued to a screen 24/7. Heart breaking.
I’m from the older half of GenZ (2003) and this is very telling of how some people should NOT be parents. Growing up, I didn’t have an iphone or an iPad or even a kindle…. I had a MP3 PLAYER!!! I didn’t have my own phone or social media until 9th grade….. 9TH GRADE!! The only stuff I watched as a kid was either the movies or tv shows we had on VHS or DVD or watching PBS Kids (PBS Kids>>> Disney Channel) I love how these parents love to make fun of us GenZ for our “poor behavior”… while also simultaneously being the same parents who shove an iPad in a 3 year olds face..🥴🥴
Same here had an mp3 player and we didn't even have a T.V. until 2010 and had to share a flip phone with my dad through HS. This will be the first generation where the poorest kids in school have the greatest advantage in grades and social conduct because if you can't afford electronics then you can't have them raise your kids.
The Millennial Parent saying that Generation Alpha would be ruthless tickled me pink. When I was their age, I played outside, had an unending obsession with history, and enjoyed reading nonfiction. They can’t read, don’t know where they live, and are glued to their devices. Those kids are lambs to the slaughter. It’s tragic the situation they are in.
There’s a Chinese show called “Be with You “ where older brothers have to take of their little sisters while the parents are away for a while,one of the kids always ate her dinner while watching an iPad , she was four years old, her older brother tried to take it away she started crying, the parents told the brother to just let her have it,When the older brother was left in charge of his sister she didn’t give her her iPad while she was eating, the brother wouldn’t give it to her. The older brother was about nineteen years (the show came out in 2021 ) so there’s a fifteen year age gap. Which means the older brother was born when the iPad first came out.
I've read so many comments about older siblings, some still minors, who have taken a parental role for their younger siblings, because their parents neglect them. Today a read a comment from a kid who taught their younger sibling how to read. I would be so ashamed if one of my children was more of a mentor and parent than me. My parents always read to me and made sure I was at an appropriate reading level. Those are some of our favorite memories. It's so sad that parents avoid things, that make happy childhoods and are one of the most rewarding aspects of parenthood. Instead of spending quality time and making memories, they shut their kids down, because spending time with them is exhausting apparently. I would miss my child if it was glued on their iPad instead of eating and talking with me. They are physically there but not mentally.
when a doctor gives you advice on how to treat your cold, the doctor doesn't necessarily have to have a cold too at the moment. same follows for a person who never raised a child giving you advice on how to raise it
Hey Gen z ipad kid, I have horrible emotional problems & struggle to communicate because my mother didn't want to raise me & just threw a tablet at little me. I got lucky though, & I was really into books & reading so I can sit down for long chunks of time to read but It makes me sick to see parents raising a generation like this. I didn't turn out okay being raised like this & there is no way the next generation can survive like this.
Side note, I'm Australian, but I have a very noticeable american accent because Dantdm & Markiplier talked to tiny me more than my mom did, kinda funny if you look at it right.
It is. If the dumbing down of the generation doesn't scare you the population collapse should. When all the competent people die off the rest are screwed.
Yeah, to be fair, it's really a case by case kinda thing. Something that can be rectified with effort and responsibility on the parent's side. Sort of a "be the change you want to see in the world" type of thing.
I'm thirteen and when I get a kid, I will get them a device at a young age, but first, I'll teach my kid to read, play with them, and get them to love real life to the point where they don't use their devices often when they get one. My parents did it to me - it worked.
I was diagnosed with ADHD way before youtube became a thing at the age of 7. If I acted up I got physically hit because my mom being full Korean was raised the same way. 10 years later at age 17 my sister noticed I had symptoms of depression and ptsd so she took me over to get evaluated, I got diagnosed with anxiety, depression and ptsd just because my ignorant mother was so ignorant towards what ADHD was and was trying to beat the illness out of me.. ADHD doesn't go away..
Literally same! Got my adhd diagnoses at 9, several others while I'm an adult. I'm dutch and my dad used to b34t me when I was frustrated with my mental health. Think my dad should've tried harder to correct my mental state cuz it's still sh!t lol. It's "funny" to see this an international problem with less or more conservative ways of thinking. Even though they keep forgetting that adhd is most likely hereditary and they might suffer from it too. Hope our gen is gonna be better and more understanding to mental health issues. Don't think neglecting and shoving an ipad Infront of a (mentally ill) kid is the best thing to do rn.
ther is something that scares me cus as a kid my mom used to say that "if you play too much your hand will get stuck like that forever!" and its happening for real now?!?
All these parents are doing is exposing to the world that they had kids because they were bored and now that the entertainment value has run out, they want the kids out of the way as much as possible.
as a gen z i'm genuinely scared for gen alpha. Like the first years of Gen alpha was starting to get to high school and they are unhinged. Obviously I don't want to repeat my grade, but the extra motivation is that if i do I'll end up in a class full of gen alpha kids.
I have a cousin who is gen alpha and im pretty happy with how shes being raised. She has a very healthy imagination. When we were visiting all she wanted to do was pretend to be witches with me the entire time. She did have an ipad which she showed me some of her favorite games on and played some with me, but generally she was so talkative and energetic with me I was honestly wishing shed go on her ipad at some points. (I mean she would wanna play witches with me the entire day, like 8 hours straight). But shes very kind, compassionate, and energetic. So i have a lot of hope for her.
Yesterday the nurse at our pediatricians office was surprised that I was able to hold a conversation with my three year old. (Convinceing him to allow the exam to go forward.) It broke my heart because she interacts with children all day long.
As a gen z, I feel awful for generation Alpha, and what they are exposed to online when the “parents” aren’t supervising, not to mention the developmental effects and shortened attention! When I was quite little, my parents made the mistake of giving me an iPad (they didn’t really know at the time so it’s not their fault) and I found some really messed up stuff, and it desensitized me to violence (not video games I mean real people). Many other things have happened since then that I am currently working on, although being exposed to things in my formative years definitely had a profound effect on me. Sorry for the rant I just want people to be careful
would you mind elaborating on how your brain would react to (real life) violence post de sensitization? i’ve always been interested in this and want to understand it more
@@ally241 I’m not really phased by violence in real life, presumably due to the exposure, I’ll try my best to stop it when I can although I’m not emotionally affected by it. I also find it harder to control urges to hurt myself or lash out at others but I try not to, currently taking DBT therapy for borderline personality disorder which is helping this those urges. Sorry this is so jumbled it’s very early in the morning hope this helped!
Seeing kids so engrossed with devices that they ignore their families is so heartbreaking to me. I am only 20 but when i was gen alphas age, I was basically pleading to go to my grandparents, to hang out with my family. Sure I had access to videos games, computers and tv, and eventually my smart phone or a tablet, but I still would much rather interact with my grandparents. My sister is gen alpha and ever since my mom passed away when my sister was basically a toddler my dad has been raising her as an iPad child, so whenever she goes to my grandparents, she is just completely ignorant to everything but the damn iPad, it’s just incredibly sad. I dread the inevitable day my grandparents pass away as they were such a massive part of my childhood, I was at their house weekly, it was like my second home. But my sister I am doubtful is going to be nearly as impacted since she barely knows them, she’d rather watch brain numbing videos all day instead.
I know im askin a lot as a stranger, but please PLEASE teach her things like colouring, getting her actual toys, i know 20 yrs old is not very ideal for earning, but whenever ur around her, just take away the device and interact with her, and if you're with ur grandparents do the same thing. it isn't our job to raise these kids but at least we can make sure they r somewhat functional without a device in their hands. also I'm sorry about your mom, and i hope you're doing good.
As a late Gen Z to early Gen Alpha, I have to say What the absolute heck is going on with my generation. Never did I think others would get this bad. I did a middle school play production that included the 5th and 4th graders, and there were girls blasting Tiktoks and putting on Drunk Elephant products. They even got yelled at to pay attention and didn't do anything. Not only that, but they are the meanest little plebs I've ever talked to. A girl named Vanessa who used to be my friend on the bus, was shoving me around and almost knocking me over backstage. She didn't say "Excuse me" or "Sorry" at all. She didn't even need to get through. My family's last visit to a restaurant I could hear kids screaming for IPads, while we were there getting food and I was putting my device away kindly. I feel like those parents are too self-centered to care about their barely functional toddlers that are rotting from a bright screen in their face almost every day.
As a slightly older gen z, there were kids acting like that when I was in middle school. But instead of tiktok it was instagram and musically, best you can do is not get too invested in this stuff and standing up for yourself when others are being weird to you. Keep your head up champ!
7:26 i can't believe that there are people that raise their kids like this. I go get a haircut, I chat with my barber. It's called socialising. I'm almost 15, and I'm genuinely concerned about the future because some of these parents do not have time or care about their OWN CHILDREN
For some reason whenever I try to socialize with my barber, my mom tells me to quiet down to let barber focus when she's not doing any hand gestures anyway
My hairstylist talks so much and I just stare into the abyss and answer her questions when she asks one. When I’m not answering her questions I analyze how she washes my hair and cuts it so I can maintain it and I also just think and daydream
That woman saying "give advice when you don't have kids... (laugh)" : how did the million parents do before the iPads existed ???? Their kids were raised, not just fed out of junk food and put in front of a screen with uncontrolled free access to the whole world most creepy content ! This is not parenting : this is downright neglect and denial. I am really scared about the future of the society, when these screwed kids will have to handle the country. So it's good to see there are still some young people like you out there, who still know what responsibility and accountability are. Thanks for this video !!
At work, we are dreading GenAlpha moving into the workforce. GenZ is on their phones a whole lot already (though they can put them away when a task requires full attention), and we can’t imagine what GenAlpha will be like. Aside from the iPad/phone addiction (and they are NOT using it to read news or books, of course), they are being given food that they want. They are not eating real food. They are eating ultra processed junk food. They are literally going to be the people in the floaty chairs in Wall-E. Also, when you pay for a restaurant meal or a ticket to an event and the child is not engaged in it, it’s a total waste of money.
yeah watch these ipad parents bad parenting backfire in their face when their kid is unable to hold down a job due to their poor social skills, entitlement, and bad attention span and then have their kids lash out at them to give them money and housing afterwards. Bet theyd start regretting not properly disciplining their kids by then
I talked about this with my mum and her best friend, they have the same views as us. My older sister (a milenial) became a teacher, she said "I'm not doing this, absolutely not.". Her problem is the kids, that have no respect, and the parents wanting the teachers to raise their children. And if the kids act up, the parents blame the teachers and defend their children. Nothing wrong with standings behind your child, but it's a child, you can't just blindly belive them and not correct them. And then be angry with other people correcting or redirecting your child. This is so apocalyptic and distopian.
I'm a 13-14 year old girl.. and god.. i have NEVER ONCE in my life ever been able to use a ipad at the dinner table? DUDE- I WOULD BE DEAD IF I DID THAT, i didn't even know what youtube was until i was like 11. and that was only because i had to watch a math tutor ON TH-cam- What is going on in this world...
Yeah, I can relate. I did not know about phones until 2012 (fyi, I was born in 2006), and did not get even a mobile until 2015, when I managed to get back home alone (my mom was very scared, so we both managed to scare ourselves because of me wanting to surprise mom). The first video games I played were on a school tablet. First time I found TH-cam was when I was 9-10 ish, but I only looked at minecraft videos in my language. And my cousin, born just before I found TH-cam, got a tablet at 3 years old (I will admit tho, my aunt is doing a very good job limiting his screentime and giving him taste of the outside). If I tried to use my phone at the table, I would have gotten a scolding (as if a mobile Nokia phone has many games). Honestly, I don't expect much of anything from the new gen. : (
Around that age I once lashed out at an relative for Pointing me out for watching TH-cam during breakfast, Now I understand that they were right about it It's also that I was raised in home it's either home or school or something, so the place to be is though phone and tech Only now I feel the disconnection I have with others, don't know some of my relatives much better and don't even remember their names, there are people in the Neighborhood that i know minus shit about only now because of tution I get to know some of them there. But I spended years as the kid who doesn't go outside I'm so disconnected for something online Also do you have the memory of Hanging out somewhere with your friends outside doing something, I don't, not yet at least
As a Gen Z with a Gen Alpha sister, I am GLAD that my Millennial parents don’t treat us like this. My sister is six years old and she won the spelling bee in her school and had almost memorized the multiplication table. If she had her face glued to a screen the whole time, she probably wouldn’t be able to spell “juice.”
I feel like society is doomed now, there’s no way we can go back from this. I spend most of my time on an iPad myself and I hate it, it really bothers me that the first thing I do when I’m bored is go on my tablet. I’m just glad that I still know it’s not good and I need to limit myself, these kids don’t know or care and their parents only enable them
It’s not, I swear to you. As an elder iPad kid, I’ll be the First to tell you these people who say you will never get better or are broken are WRONGGGGGGGG! They just don’t know any of us, and your attention span isn’t broken or short! (you probably just have a hard time finding things you like to do, and that’s okay not everyone has to like the same things) And you can get a longer one because guess what? Your brain is mouldable! It will change and you will get that focus back! Read fanfic or comics! Read a book or listen to a audiobook, you can’t change immediately that isn’t a thing. It’s slow, and that’s okay! 100% lemme tell you your attention span isn’t short it’s just you don’t have anything interesting to do. Society isn’t doomed, if this stuff was real and not fear mongering we would have short attention spans Because of fast paced tv shows, gambling, and their jobs. But no that’s not really a thing, it’s usually addiction caused by neurodivergentcy or strange brain processes. Your not evil, your not bad, you’re trying and that’s AWESOME!!! If you want to regain your attention span? Read some fanfic or original stories on ao3 it will help LOADSSS You got this! Society isn’t ruined, the kids are fine, and you are going to be okay. I’m not lying, I thought I was doomed to be an iPad kid forever. But guess what? I grew out of it! You’re going to be just fine, you are not broken or ruined you are going to be fine
I agree sadly, the world is nothing like it was in the 90’s/early 2000’s. People actually spent time with each other, went out places, knew their neighbors, had a community. My neighborhood growing up was like family, they’d help me without a thought. I don’t even know who my neighbors are now.
Gen Z, as yall start having kids, please stand strong 🙏🏻 I’m an older Millennial with ipad-less 6, 3, and 1 year olds, and I feel so helpless amongst this. I’m worried for society. We are often the only family at restaurants without kids on tablets. We TEACH THEM how to behave and have good table manners. We’re teaching them how to have a conversation with their family, enjoying a meal together. It doesn’t happen immediately but it’s worth the effort. Parenting is really hard, but you still have to actually do the work. Sometimes my kids whine that they are bored. Sometimes my toddler has a meltdown in a restaurant. Sometimes I’d like to enjoy a conversation with my husband over dinner without being interrupted 🙃 But that’s the job and I’d rather have kids who are not dependent on devices in the long run.
I’m a Zer and I will definitely raise my kids the way they’re supposed to be raised 🫡 Heck I might even buy a 1996 Chevy Suburban to drive them around in 🙃 If they still exist of course.
I’m a younger Zer, and I don’t plan on having kids, but if I ever do, I would NEVER do this. It’s sick and disgusting that these kids can’t go to DINNERS and SPORTS EVENTS without the IPad. Thank you for being one of the good ones 🫡🫡
We need more parents like you, miss (?). I can already see a difference between 9th graders and my classmates, and they are still GEN Z. I will not be in school by the time the new generation shows up, but if my teachers already have some problems with the 9th graders, I would not be surprised if the new gen is more degraded than an iron axe left outside for 20 years.
I'm a millennial parent, and yeah, it's shocking to see the amount of kids, some who are still in strollers, on a phone while they're out with their parents. I find it's most common at the grocery store that a kid is sitting in the cart and watching a phone while the parent(s) shop. Seems like such a missed opportunity to connect with your kids and teach them about what grocery shopping is and what food is. It's just super weird to not want to chat and connect with your kids.
I'm Gen Z. My little cousins are Gen Alpha. There's a boy and a girl. Whenever they didn't do what I asked or told them to do(usually to stop hitting each other or messing with each other), I took the ipads away and put them where the children couldn't reach them. The boy would throw these massive tantrums-screaming, crying, kicking, hitting, and scratching me like a wild fucking animal over it. No matter how many times I calmly explained to him why I took it away and why what he was doing was the wrong course of action, he didn't listen. Only screeched like a demon and charged at me. By now, both of those kids only respect me and no one else. I taught them manners and I make sure they maintain them when I'm watching them or when I'm around. But back then in the early days when they were still testing their boundaries with me, I would have to bodily pick both of them up and carry them to their rooms to set them on their beds. I didn't take their TV remotes away, I didn't take every form of entertainment in their rooms away like my father did to me when he thought I was being too annoying for his liking. I would tell them to just calm down, play with their toys by themselves for a little bit, then I would call them out for a snack or the next meal. And eventually, they learned that if they did what I asked when I asked them to do it, they got rewarded for their good behavior. The boy will be 13 in October and the girl just turned 8 in June. They are both attending summer school because they are behind in several areas by entire GRADES. I have tried my damndest to save these kids from the way their parents are raising them on their technology, but my aunt and uncle get defensive every time they notice me parenting their kids better than they are, so I can't keep it up always. Now, we're stuck in some kind of horrible limbo where the children only respect and listen to me but behave terribly with everyone else. The only other person they don't act like absolute Gremlins with is my father, but that's because he made them fear him when they were young, just like he did to me as a child. Their relationship with my father is just as toxic as their relationship with their parents. I can't save them from this, because they're not my kids, and it makes me cry whenever I think about it.
Kudos to you. I'm Gen X, and my old classmates (Class of 82) have grandkids that age now. Same horror stories. You may have saved those kids' lives in more ways than one. BTW we didn't all raise millennials. A lot of Millenials were born to Boomers in their 30s and even 40s. For the most part we were skipped over.
as a gen alpha myself, me and my brother were at a restaurant reading a book while waiting for our meals and the waiter came up and CONGRATULATED us because most kids are on an iPad. WHAT WORLD DO WE LIVE IN edit: how did i get so many likes
@@gudetamathelazyegg_thats great! I was kinda similar with my phone but then i picked up crocheting and now i think i have a yarn addiction... But id rather be a yarn zombie than a phone zombie
As a younger gen z, I learned to read when I was two. My sister is seven and still learning to read. I was reading HARRY POTTER by then. My sister won’t even eat dinner with us, she’ll sit and watch her IPad and draw with an Uncrustable. The good thing is that she’s developed since then. She’s starting to read chapter books, will actually talk and play and run around the house and spends time outside. If you’re wondering, I got my first device when I was in 6th grade (sketchy city). My sister got her first device when she was one. ONE. Folks, take a break from the phones. Spend time with your siblings, your kids, your cousins, whatever.
BRO ONE?! i got my first REAL device when i was 8. and yeah it may sound insane but i learned how to read at 3, and i was reading stuff like harry potter and/or stephen king! sometimes my parents let me watch but thats only if its a small meal. but i can still put the damn thing down! but im glad shes playing outside and stuff, but you cant just put a device that young
I have a younger sibling (7yr old) my brother can not physically function with out a device. if you don’t let him have it he will scream, yell, cry and hit/kick everyone around him..
My father (boomer) had worked his whole life in sales and service at an electronic store and was not a big fan of electronics, my sibling and I (gen Z) were not allowed to get tablets until we turned 6 and were only allowed 1 HOUR a day in supervision from our mom, the tablets had parental controls and only played games. LIKE HOW do these kids spend 6-10 hours on these things a day, I used to spend 6 hours a day outside LIKE WHAT HAPENED TO PLAYING OUTSIDE, WHAT ARE THESE PARENTS DOING leaving their kids like this.
The parents should just introduced them to iPads and iPhones later when they’re a little older and just let them play with toys or maybe if anything give them the Leapster games if they still have it
No fr. Lego, outside games, making chocolate lolly pops, making those little cards, bracelets, loom bands. That stuff was sick. I miss it. Kids should be going that
Dude I’m was born in 2000 and I still build LEGOs Sure my ps3 and Wii were fun but I still loved playing with action figures and stuff alike on those years.
like fr i miss playing with barbie’s myself and i’m almost 16?? if i were given the choice to pick either an ipad or a barbie i’d choose the latter tbh
The fact that kids just ignore there grandparents is even worse than them ignoring there parents, because you don’t see your grandparents as often. I was going bowling and getting lunch with them, and the only time I pulled out my phone was to take some pictures of them bowling for my mom.
I work at a preschool in Iceland and my coworkers constantly talk about how the kids just get more selfish and mean as the years go by. They’re demanding, they’re rude, and their parents don’t care. One kid only knows the tv as “watch”, one kid spent her entire life just with her mom at home and she’s the biggest problem in our class right now, she bites, pulls hair, hits, and screams almost all day unless we play music or let them watch one episode of the teletubbies, if one kid hears the intro to Bluey she will scream and demand to watch it, one of our two year olds came in the other day with a small video game device, we had to pry it out of her hands.
Okay just saying this now. I’m definitely not saying millennials aren’t doing this, because yes they definitely are. With that said, it’s not only millennials. I remember 12 years ago going to a restaurant in Washington state - I was with a group of 10 to 12. mostly college kids and some parents. AnyWho, I was the only one who didn’t have their iPhone or tablet out at the table. I was also the youngest one the oldest ranging from 50 to 60. Parents were definitely Gen X . It’s definitely a rich family thing too Edit: I wanna clarify and not continue to add tension and seperate generations. Yall know every generation has great folks in it :) I think its a rich thing. Like, so rich that you dont understand that u need to buy books for kids, u just buy more tech
My parents are Gen X and I didn’t go outside but I grew up reading, real books, and drawing. The kids around me were all about phones and computers tho so I think you’ve got a point.
@@Strawberry_Softcake honestly i feel it’s not easy to be a parent. Also I’m a web developer so I’m always busy with my job. But right now I’m focus on myself & my career. Its also expensive having kids
as someone who does eat dinner with technology, the only reason i do is to drown out the noise of chewing because my brother’s chewing is really obnoxious
I have cousins who are millennials and their kids are acting completely normal so far. They don’t have their devices on them 24/7. I’m glad my family tree is smart when it comes to parenting.
I’m gen z alpha, and even I don’t use my phone when I’m visiting family unless nothing is going on. If nothings going on, I’ll ask my cousins if they wanna do something first. If we can’t figure something out, THEN I’ll go on my phone. It’s so annoying how many kids were raised by iPads. I’m taking a pledge, and I will not give my kid a phone or iPad until they are at the very least 15. I’ll give them a flip phone to call me in case of an emergency, but that’s it until they’re 15.
The parents of today don’t, won’t, and cant say no to their kids. If they try, the kids (who have no respect) will talk back and be sassy AF. instead of being born with a silver spoon in their mouth, they’re born with an iPhone glued to their hand. Sigh. It’s hard for us older generations to understand this.
I don’t think it’s a lack of respect but more emotional abuse that causes them to talk back. They’ve been neglected for so long, shoved with an iPad and told to just shut up, that they act out when not given what they want. They’ve never been given real love so they relay on the only tools they’re parents have given them, reinforcing in their child that if they kick up a fuse they will get what they want and because the parents don’t have or want to have a backbone they give. What these kids need is emotional support and understanding. Someone who actually cares about them and doesn’t just shove them aside to get them to be quiet. These parents now a days have digged their kids a grave and have already shoved them in.
@@Willow76ny my dad would whoop my ass into next month if i tried to pick a fight with him, who the fuck lets their kids hit them without consequences?
Listen… I always feel the need to be on my phone, because that’s where my social life has been my whole teenage life. I live an hour from my school and friends, so it’s not as easy as ‘just go to their house’ or ‘just ask your mum to drive you-‘ no, we have to take a whole day for a visit- 😭 So yes, a lot of my time is spent texting, but when I’m not, I’m either OFF. THE. PHONE. with my family, and I barely go on unless I get a text message, or I’m just using it for downtime! I am shocked, but also not, at how the world is turning out. 😞
It makes me really sad to see kids ignoring their grandparents and spending time on the iPad instead. I lost my grandpa when I was a literal infant and I would do anything to go back and meet him , and have memories, and moments with him. These kids don’t realize how lucky they are to have this time with their grandparents and clearly don’t appreciate it enough.
As a Generation Jones Boomer. My parents would let us watch a certain amount of tv. When they figured it was enough the tv got turned off and we were told to go play or read a book. I dod the same with my kids when it came to tv and their NES. It helped that my kids were very active and usually preferred playing outside anyway. Me I was more of an inside person reading and doing other things vecause I've been allergic to pretty much everything outside all of my life.
Another rebuttal to the thing at 2:44 is because yeah, that “gotcha” moment is actually somewhat true. But it’s like being an alcoholic and seeing a kid being handed a beer. This is ruining our lives, and it’s heartbreaking to see it start to ruin the life of a kid.
As someone who was born during the start of gen alpha, the fact that my brother who is five spends 24/7 365 on the tv/my mom's phone. He has been saying some cruel words, phrases, etc.
The kids ignoring the grandparents is SO SADDD. I can’t imagine just ignoring my grandparents when going out to eat. They are gonna regret not taking more time with their grandparents:(
Fr, if we were out or in the house I'd annoy my brother, play games with my parents or at home I'd pet my animals and probably annoy my mom, out id use the crayons and draw on the kids menu or go to get food with my mom or brother
My grandfather ironically is an iPad parent. Me (Gen Z) and my gen alpha sister live with our grandparents, and my sister is now nine and had the WORST behavioral issues I've ever witnessed in a child. She screamed when she couldn't have a screen, told my grandpa to die, she hates him, she wants to kill herself, she hates her life and more. She's nine, and he has raised her on a phone nearly since birth.
I have been stressing to my grandmother these issues and we are working on limiting her screen time- she has now lost internet access completely and can only play console games.
Her behavior has already improved drastically. These screens are detrimental to children, especially with unrestricted internet access.
We need to raise them ALONGSIDE technology, not WITH technology.
common 2015 born L
@@MappingRobloxAnimationsimagine being gen alpha, seeing these things about yourself, realising it's true and getting so mad you have to go reply to everyone
My youngest sister experienced those same “withdrawal” symptoms when her phone was taken away or we were out of service for more then a day. She couldn’t cope. I don’t know how it would go today if she tried- she still seems very attached to it.
@@Blueetwooo It is vile how kids don't know till they're older just how important family and grandparents are.
@@kj5250 Pretty much addiction, we do need genuine "rehab" for people like this, the rehab should really include teaching kids about screen time, teaching parents how to moderate everything and monitor it. They're hooked psychologically to their phone as their entire external validation source sometimes, Not calling out your sister im just talking in general
my 11-year-old sister went to play with her cousins who are the same age. They had both iPhones and apple watches and were ignoring her. Broke my heart she was so disappointed.
I'm so sorry 😢
Like play with toyssss, and board games or use imagination or like why not play video games together on a console if they want to do tech. I have so many fun memories with my friends playing multiplayer games on the N64.
@@alexaburksmy cousins bring their nintendo switch every time we visit our grandparents, and even though it gets really chaotic really quickly, my brother and i have fun playing with them (at the expense of everyone else's ears lmao)
@@aspillust At least video games can be interactive and involve making memories with other people, they are a lot better than just mindlessly scrolling or just staring at the youtube kids app or TikTok
If i had an iphone (never) i would airtag them smth like his
"yo bish get off the phone we got slides to slide bro"
imagine what kind of sad memories it will be when they are trying to remember their childhood, and it just them looking down at a screen.
Thats sad. I look back at my childhood and remember so many great things. All the imaginative stories i created with my toys, playing in thr street with othet kids, riding our bikes all over and making up games. Kids now dont have any of that, and that stuff is crucial for healthy adult development. Going to be so many mental issues in near future.
or they’ll look back to fucking SKIBIDI TOILET…SKIBIDI TOILET 😭 or that “rizz” shit while the best thing I remember was going to New York and spending time with family, or getting Peter Pipers for getting good grades on my report card!!
They will not think about that because they will do the exact same thing in the adulthood
The sad truth about TH-cam today is that tablets are destroying various minds, even when you’re looking at something that had nothing to do with what iPad Kids would “watch”.
Weird.
Seeing the kids on their phone ignoring their grandparents genuinely breaks my heart. Especially The last picture of the girl and her grandpa.
Hits even harder knowing the memories I had with my great grandmother, who passed away when I was 16. All the football games we would watch at her house, the family events we went to, it makes me so glad I didn’t have a screen in front of my face while it was happening, and spending time with family I have a short time left on earth with, and decades of waiting to reunite with them on the other side.
@@subplzorideleteurchannel7193 fr though I’m very greatful that I grew up with out electronics and that I got to spend as much time with my loved ones who are no longer with us
:( This makes me miss my grandpa and grandma more...
It breaks my heart too. I lost my Grandpa (mom's side) before my 19th birthday and my Grandparents (dad's side) don't really want a connection to me or my siblings.
"You're raising a zombie!" That is so disgustingly true.
Truth
they eat content, not food
In the next 20 years there children would ask them what their childhood?
And the iPad kids as grownups will say (Looking down Ata a screen)
For real, like I am on a device a lot, but like I do other things like sometimes go outside, ride the golf cart, play with my dog, and etc, like I’m not like those other kids ( also idk if 2011 is gen z or a idk )
Apparently it is Gen Alpha. 13 & 14 year olds are hopped up on the gen alpha trends; drunk elephant, mewing, etc. But there are some normal ones. Still Gen Alpha, but todays teens are better then today's children. @River-Is-A-Good-Girl
as a gen z, our generation isn’t the best with screen time and stuff but the gen alpha level of addiction to screens is INSANE. I’m not scared of them, they’re just there.
Your generation will be parenting the generation that comes after gen alpha. Do you think it'll be any better? Wisdom comes from not listening to whining TH-cam rants, and embracing the fact that all generations are as great and shit as each other. Just a unique, generational set of challenges. Boomer parents left many millennials to get in with it, and hey we were being sexually abused. Fun eh.
Late gen z here, agreed. Hell, sometimes I wanna cry when my brothers wanna stay on their tablets, while I want to play as a family.
Another gen z, so true. I prefer console games, or retro gaming, but my brother uses an iPad. I’m grateful my mother doesn’t let him use it until he’s done with his work, but sometimes it’s sad when he just watches skibidi toilet on loop. Luckily he got Mario Wonder recently, that game seems to be distracting him from his iPad, thank god.
Remember: they will vote.
@@sammmbaNah the only politics most of gen alpha's ever gonna involve themselves with is electing either Cocomelon or Digital Circus for "Prime Skibidi Rizzler", they're so terminally online and neglected by parents they can't even distinguish fiction from reality.
That one mom saying gen alpha will be ruthless is the funniest thing I have ever heard... They won't have the attention span or the vocabulary to hold a argument with a single gen z.
Also the kid playing Minecraft and swiping through Tiktok really makes me question the generation of kids after gen z's kids
I'm not afraid when a gen alpha threatens me
I can take them in a fight easily
Cant even spell ruthless
@@Man_Aslume Just bully them for not being able to read. Easy
@@hresvelgr7193
Yup
My sister had her first kid two months ago. The whole time she was pregnant with my niece, I made sure to drum this into her head: *NO MOBILE DEVICES UNTIL PUBERTY.*
After telling her that, I showed her this video, along with the "Gen Alpha Can't Read" video. When she got done watching them, she was utterly HORRIFIED. She immediately vowed to follow my advice completely. It's been only two months, but every night I sleep well knowing that my niece will at least have a chance at being a normal, functioning member of society.
Great 👍🏻
Finally we will have a normal gen Alpha
Well done!
w fr
Honestly that might go wrong. She might hit puberty late, i think she should have an ipad and have veryy limited access and screentime when she is about 8.
my sister in law banned cocomelon for my 4 year old niece cause she noticed the content wasnt teaching good stuff. she then deleted youtube kids from the ipad cause she noticed the content wasnt that great either. and my niece.... IS PERFECTLY FINE!!!! THEY DONT NEED TH-cam OR TIKTOK EVERY SECOND OF THE DAY!!
@arsenelupin1729sorry for your loss, and I’ve done that with adult content that’s popped up on my feed too, doesn’t work, you have to click “Do not recommend this channel” and “Not Interested” for better results ❤
Yeah my children arent allowed to watch anything cocomelon at all
Any app with the mindless scrolling stuff is extremely bad for everybody
@@collinkaufman2316 True, it overwhelms attention and floods your memory with all this random nonsense. No wonder kids nowadays have such a hard time remembering events and imagining things.
If you’re learning Japanese, Japanese Cocomelon is surprisingly good in my opinion.
Let me tell you something as someone who works with ages 0-12 in childcare. Children are much easier to "deal with" when zombified by a screen. But they are not more well behaved. You'll realize that the instant that screen switches off, and without fail all of those children will become monsters unreasonably angry and struggling to function because there's no more screen. It's disgusting.
absolutely. when you are actually there for them and are teaching them problem solving skills, social skills, educating them, how to handle being in public, being bored and you support them emotionally they are way better behaved. When they can trust you, when they act in age appropriate ways, they know you will be there to guide them through, support them and help if needed. They will be so much better behaved and consciously aware because they will then have the tools to navigate situations.
This! It's an addiction! Don't get me wrong, Gen. Z certainly struggled with "put down the cellphone" a good number of times.
That was a reminder for us. For Gen. Alpha, it's a necessity. These kids NEED to put the screens down lest they want to sacrifice any and all forms of social skills. These parents need to do better for their kids' sake!
Humans didn't evolve to interact with screens 24/7. Social skills are nonexistent. Adhd is far worse than previous generations who grew up with television.
They are literally crack addicts looking for their next fix. Screens and internet time are addictive. HIGHLY addictive by design
So glad I OPTED OUT of having children Lol.
ipad "parents" when their child grows up with crippling social anxiety, no childhood, no toys, no love, no affection, no creativity, no imagination, no outdoors, and being undereducated:
I had an ipad when I was little but my parents didn’t let me use it as much bc there was better things to do in life.
@@CoralluvXO
I got one when I was 2, but I kind of needed it as I was having a surgery/procedure/whatever where I needed to stay completely still
I played with toys and draw until I was like 6, and then I got a kindle for like 4 years until I was required to have a phone for middle school for safety reasons and you had to get a app from the school on the iPhone, and I gave my parents the kindle back:)
I’m abt to be in 8th grade, and just because I have had internet access for a long time doesn’t mean I don’t know how to respect my parents, I love my parents and im glad they raised me the way they did and it’s my turn now to make them proud 😊
I'm so sorry for your generation, I can't believe how it's gotten this bad, but yikes...
@@elise.ch4nnyou must really got your phone just now because u joined 3 seconds ago
The other day, i saw a tik tok of this lady sharing how her daughter keeps entertained because she hasn't had a screen for over 2 years. It was so wholesome, and it was cute too! Im so proud of that lady and her daughter.
I grew up with the internet, but my parents were so careful to give me a lot of outside time and time with books and non-digital toys, and I’m sooo thankful for that now that I’m older, especially after seeing these videos
Same- Im so glad my mom actually gave me boundrys with electronics, this makes me feel so much better about myself lol
Me too
Same
Same
Ditto! 💯
It's honestly so sickening that my mom (a Millennial) has decided to raise my brother and sister (both Gen Alpha) on phones. I am a Gen Z and I asked my mom what she did to me when I was being a bit rowdy and she said that she gave me toys, coloring books and watching SpongeBob on the TV. I then asked her why she gave my brother and sister devices when they were getting rowdy. Phones. My brother got his first phone when he was FOUR. But it gets even more insane. My sister got her first phone when she was TWO. TWO FUCKING YEARS OLD. She wasn't even in preschool let alone DAYCARE when she got a phone. I, on the other hand got my first phone when I was in 6th grade. So then I asked my mom why she decided to give phones to my siblings at a VERY young age. Her response was that parenting can get too tiring for her and the phone can teach them colors, shapes and all that shit. And to get this, I started to read around 4-5, while my brother started reading when he was around 6-7. Do you see a problem there? More about how the phone can "teach colors and shapes," yea my sister doesn't know what the basic shapes (circles, triangles and squares) are. What makes me so mad is that my mom had the time to actually be a parent and teach me that stuff while she decides that parenting is too hard and gives my siblings phones. What I'm trying to say here is that parenting has gone down so fucking much that I have to be the one teaching my siblings the stuff they should have learned when they were younger. One day I asked my brother why do you have so many devices, his response was, "Well if one dies then I can just go on another so I won't be bored." Y'all don't know how MAD I got when he said that He was basically raised to not be bored. Boredom is good because children can use their IMAGINATION FOR ONCE. Same with my sister, she is never bored because she has a goddamn phone in her hand basically all the time. EVEN WHEN SHE PLAYS WITH TOYS, SHE STILL HAS HER PHONE WITH HER. So please Gen Z PLEASE DON'T give Gen Beta iPads because WE will be the ones raising them.
i didnt get my first smart phone until i was in i think 8th grade maybe even 9th grade, and there were definitely times i couldn't set my phone down, but the difference is i spent more time reading books on my phone than literally anything else combined. no mind numbing scrolling just reading and friend group chats. and these days if i have some days off having with nothing to do and i find myself refreshing TH-cam or scrolling through shorts i feel mentally sick after about an hour and need to go do like arts and crafts, like i'll go color in a children's coloring book at age 23 with no shame. i don't have tiktok and never plan to, i'd rather waste my time coloring or painting then wasting time on the internet. and most importantly i love walking my dogs through trails and just being in real time in nature with my 2 best friends (my dogs). if i were to have kids which i don't plan to, daily walks with no electronics the entire walk is an absolute must in my opinion (usually 40 minute walks)
I had witnessed very similar circumstances as a gen Z with gen "alpha" siblings. My mother is gen X, so her upbringing was the fever dream known as the 80s. She got her first phone in her early twenties and would dangle that fact over my head when I got my first phone (a hand-me-down of course) at 14 or in grade 8, for both a birthday and Christmas present combined. And I'd have my phone confiscated for weeks at a time if I didn't complete assignments, which was because I had genuine ADHD left undiagnosed because I'm more inattentive (due to my mother's undiagnosed ADHD-I).
My brother got a phone, iPad and his own flat screen before his 4th birthday, not even for his birthday, just handed them. And my sister had basically the same before she was even 18 months old. They are the most brain rotted children I've ever met, and I babysit, and work in early education. They are always triple screening, screaming at each other and make the most disturbing jokes about dead babies and Putin being "a good guy". They literally get to sit in their own living room with their screens for dinner. When I was growing up, it was family dinner, at the table, no exceptions. When their screens are taken, it's for less than a day. I've had my phone confiscated for 4 months a one time, and probably for a total of a year and a half during the four years I had one before leaving at 18.
I also have a friend from HS, a fellow gen Z, who has iPad babies. Her two eldest are constantly glued to their screens and they're both less than 5 years old. My poor goddaughter has ADHD because of the neglect. And instead of addressing her needs, they smack her for needing attention.
Unfortunately, gen X, Y and Z have all failed their gen "alpha" babies.
Which is why I'm waiting until I'm 25 before having my own crotch fruit. So I have the patience and knowledge to raise my children effectively, so they'll be reading, speaking, and comprehending at the same rate I did as a toddler. I could read at 4 as well, knew my shapes and numbers, could count to 500 before 5, when my peers were just learning about 100 at 6. If my kids turn out to be as intelligent as me, they'll have a leg up over their generation.
Best of luck to you and your future children/niblings.
i got my first phone when i was 11 (cuz my town was sketchy)
i didn't get my first phone until i was 15, wtf
I didn’t have phones growing up as an xennial - but I experienced neglect - so I also taught my sister to read at 4/5 - when I was about 10/11. I was left home to babysit while my parents worked. It was just us locked in a house w a TV, all day every summer. Now in some states that would be illegal!
All kids deserve parents but not all parents deserve kids
Accurate
Yeah like whats even the point of having children if they're not even going to parent?
@@cottoncandywithbread5244I guess they wanted kids to take care of them when they get too old but look. They can't even read at the age of 6 ☠ agree with you tho️
Well said!!
@@cottoncandywithbread5244Selfish people. They have kids at this point for status. It’s like their children are props in their stupid videos
Back when I was in middle school, we were still allowed to use our phones during class breaks, and I genuinely have good memories of those times. Then I realized it was because we still socialized and played together: if we were playing games, we played multi-player; we put music and came up with our own choreos, we went crazy over 1D, BTS, whatever the rage was, TOGETHER. So, a few years ago, when my country completely prohibited phones during class breaks, I thought it was an exaggeration because I didn't feel like it ruined my time with friends. Later, I realized it was because by middle school we already knew how to play, we already knew how to socialize because we spent our childhood, our elementary with no phones, just playing and we liked and were used to it. But these kids they don't ever know how to play, how to socialize (and I say this as a shy awkward person) they never learned self control and as long as they have a device they will shut down everyone around completely and that's why the only answer at school is prohibiting it completely.
Americans take heed. Good advice here.
My mom actually used restaurants as a parenting tool for my sister and I. Back when they used let kids eat free, she would take us out and we learned very quick that good behavior earned dessert. Yeah, despite the dessert being free, she would not allow us to order if we did not behave. You know, consequences. Looking back, it was a good way to teach rowdy toddlers how to engage and be patient. Despite being a single mom without tablets or cellphones, she made time to parent so these parents got no excuse. These children do not need a tablet, they need crayons and glitter glue.
Teaching kids that good behaviour earns treats, and bad behaviour means they’re not deserving of a treat can lead to eating disorders tho :/
Most of the most recent and scientifically backed parenting advice I’ve read is that food *should not* be treated as a reward or punishment. Food is food. Be it a main course or desert, it nourishes your body, and you deserve that even if you’ve been “bad”
Edit: I just wanna add that I’m not trying to criticize your mom or how she raised you. You mentioned she was a single parent, and goddamn I can’t imagine how hard that is. I’m only saying that we’re continuing to learn more about child psychology and development, and these methods are no longer recommended by many professionals
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@@deeeno6867desserts don’t nourish your body bozo 😂😂😂 they are barely food. They ARE treats. Food is nourishment. Desserts are sugar treats
They can't leave a child unattended at a restaurant. What if a creepy person/pedo goes up and snatches the child away? The child can't react because he's too into the iPad to even know that he's being taken away.
@@vindemia deserts normally have *some* nutritional value even if it’s mostly sugar and unhealthy ingredients. Teaching kids that food can be “good” or “bad” is like, step 1. of acquiring an eating disorder (trust me, I’d know🫣)
I honesty feel bad for those kids they won't even get an actual childhood
Man I don't even know what to do. I'm scared for my younger step-siblings. My mom gave one of them, who is 5 and in kindergarten, a phone with internet access. She now has to wear glasses.
The second one, who is 2, is falling down the same path. My mom hasn't done anything to stop it. She just laughs at what they watch. I'm concerned for their well-being. No one deserves to go down that path. I'm just asking for some advice. Please.
@@Ezziesfavoriteguy Ok, this sucks, however it has been proven that bad eyesight isn't necessarily caused by looking at screens (correlation does not equal causation), instead its actually not getting enough sunlight at an early age that is one of the main reasons for having bad eyesight (not the only reason though). So obviously in this case the kids aren't getting enough sunlight because they're being raised with parents who don't care about them but this would happen if they were inside reading books or drawing all day as well.
@unfortunatefish3322 yeah, I just wished that my mom would actually PARENT them instead of shoving a phone into their faces whenever their mood slightly shifts....
EXACTLY!
@@Ezziesfavoriteguygiving kids phone w internet access - unsupervised - is terrifying
I feel like getting bored is a good thing sometimes.
As much as the feeling itself sucks, you kinda need boredom in a way, it's a great motivator for finding creative things to do or make.
That is so true. Sometimes I get tired of being on my iPad (I’m a teenager don’t worry) and I just have to turn it off. I did this one time and just laid on the floor in my room staring at the ceiling. When I do get bored of my iPad I go outside with my brother and we just roam around because I can’t drive yet. But once I do I will be out all the time 🫡
@@erimator17 What do you do on the ipad? Is it mostly watching videos, like youtube/tik tok and some social media stuff?
I know that's a dumb question, but I've never even owned one tbh
@@465markoNot them, but iPad's are actually quite great for work and school. The apple pen, despite getting memed on for its exorbitant price, is actually a really great stylus. A pretty large amount of my classmates in uni use an ipad for note taking, emails and sometimes even for their requirements. Versatile things, ipads are.
Exactly! I make my son be bored. He has a better imagination than his peers because of it 😂
@@465markoit's like a giant cell phone. Full access to the internet, instant messaging, and you can download apps.
I took a class this last year, it was reading and writing class. And I can remember this one story. It was written in the 50s about the future. And these parents invested in a smart home when they found out they were having children. They practically let the house raise the child, and the old nursery is 3D. It could make it seem that you were at the beech, or the desert, or the rain forest. And when the parents shut the room off because they wanted to take a break from the house doing everything for them, the kids pitched a pit and killed the parents. I can't help but feel that by the time people realize and start to act, that they'll be so brain-rotten, that they will act entitled to it.
50s? Do you mean the 2050s?
The delt if anyone was wondering whcih story
Every time I go to Walt Disney World, I see children in strollers being pushed down Main Street in Magic Kingdom glued to an iPad. YOUR CHILD DOESNT NEED COCOMELON IN DISNEY WORLD.
As a Florida resident, going to the parks and seeing kids glued to their iPads is so sad
Wow. And really it gets to the point where the child almost “needs” it. Their brains are now hard wired to function with that level of stimuli, so being pushed around Disney and just observing their surroundings is not stimulating enough, and they’ll kick up a fuss and say they’re bored 🤦🏻♀️😔
I see babies and small children glued to ipads or phones whenever I go out it's crazy it's becoming normal for parents to let a literal infant watch tiktok or yt shorts
THE WORLD WHERE IMAGINATION HAS BECOME FIT INTO A TANGIBLE FORM, AND THEY HAVE THE AUDACITY TO WATCH COCOMELON THERE? WHERE FUN IS PURELY SOURCED FROM THE MAGIC TINKER BELL LEFT ACROSS THE PARK? HOW?!
Yes I am a phone kid rn but even my phone can wait if I go to Disney world 😀
I work at a store and once a mom came in w an about THREE MONTH OLD BABY in a carrier. An IPAD MINI was propped in front of her. THE POOR THING DOESNT EVEN KNOW WHAT IT IS! She barely knows anything about the world yet and she’s already having brainrot shoved in her face! I felt sick seeing that
YES! I see this all the time! When I was out with two friends, saw this woman with a child in a stroller with the wmans phone in front of his face, I say "poor child" one of my friends hears this and looked over at the pair and gave em a dirty look. it's disgraceful!
Three months!? THREE MONTHS!? Holy shit, that’s a new low.
@@yungembarrassment619 That's a Guiness World Record for youngest iPad kid
@@Nbrother1607I SAW AN TODDLER WHEN I WAS IN BORACAY ONE TIME THAT WAS BRAINROTTED WHAT-
That is Lazy Parenting to the Extreme. When I be a parent, my kid won't get an IPad until 3 and he won't use it for more than 2 hours!
Bruh, as a guy who played hockey for more than half my childhood, it really saddens me that children like this aren’t noticing the absolute joy of playing/watching the sport.
Don't judge me my brother plays hockey and I go to all the games so I can't stand watching it. Its boring to me 😭
Same but with drawing, I drew so many stuff as a younger child, I still do it and I joy it alot
Seeing all those horrifying hockey injuries up to an including what happened to Adam Johnson a few months ago of is enough to turn anyone off the sport. And I say that as a Czech person
@@serebii666children back there didnt care, you are one of the reasons this gen is doomed
@@volvo_3877That’s okay though, at least you’re still supporting him and he’s actually being active.
im a kid born in 2012 and i was given an ipad mini at the age of two but i wasnt obsessed with it. instead, i would use it like a phone and take pictures at museums, vacations, etc. i would watch youtube starting a young age too but all i watched was mickey mouse, mlp, pj masks, and funny cat video compilations, nothing "brainrot-ish" and i kinda hate seeing videos like this knowing kids just a few years younger than me are growing up with stuff like this. few years makes a big difference in what kids grow up with and its honestly crazy.
Same.
I was born a year younger than you but I did the same as well
I literally just played asphalt 8 on my sister's iphone
and also mlg asphalt 8 vids (I played A8 on my phone after I got it)
I feel like this is the consequence of what an individualist society we live in. The iPad moms I’ve met seem to lack any energy, patience, or the capacity to interact with their children at all. They find it tiring because they’ve likely had little to no support and are ultimately sacrificing their children’s long term wellbeing for short term peace.
These are also people who had kids that they just don't want to deal with because they were expected to procreate. There are multiple factors that go into this.
Are you sure it's not just people who shouldn't be having kids having kids? No one in the modern world is forced to have kids.
@@oreofudgemanin other words, they're not smart enough to think for themselves. Typically, the less intelligent you are, the more children you will have.
@@RepentImmediately Social pressure can one hundred percent be a huge contributing factor.
All the while blaming teachers and the Public School system for thier childs stunted education and social skills.
"Ruthless" to what? _Batteries??_
LOOK OUT CHARGING CABLES, GEN α IS COMING FOR YOU!!!! 🤣
Ok this is actually funny
Lmfaoo this perfect response 🤣
Love how you used the punctuation and italics to show character.
As a millennial parent of two gen alphas, I wholeheartedly disagree that children with iPad in restaurants are more well behaved than those without. When we go to restaurants I deliberately leave their tablet at home, that way I can teach them patience while we wait for our food. When we are dinning with other adults my children talk amongst themselves, so much so they've developed a beautiful friendship and I love that for them. Parenting is about being intentional, my generation seem to hate parenting but demand everyone to see them as great parents.
We are similar 👏🏻 and there’s a difference between being “well behaved” and a zombie staring at a device. That’s not a sign of good manners or behavior.
While not a parent, but ut a 13 yr old boy I greatly appreciate that my parents taught me discipline and patience. Ant teaching me skills before I had a device. I fell that thier actions has affected me greatly. Also just seeing kids walk around with phones in hand and 9 yr olds sitting at restaurants with thier iPads. We went to macyos to remember my mom’s brother who died in a car accident. And the table right next to us had 3 children watching TH-cam with the volume cranked and there was nothing we could uld do because the parents didn’t care. It’s just silly how they can just let their children just do that.
EXACTLY. i grew up with NO electronics but the cartoons on like a Saturday in the morning. i went outside, i hiked, i interacted with my family.
i was never given an ipad when i threw a fit, or at the diner. i would eat my food, and if i threw a fit i was put in the "naughty corner". i lived life in the moment. my first phone was late 6th grade and it only had 1-3 simple games (ex. pacman), camera app and simple messaging. i was ONLY given it so i could stay after school and communicate with my family. in the car i would play i spy for hours, chat, and watch raindrops "race" each other.
even now with a phone that has plenty of options and things to do, i always know when to put down my phone and live in the moment. i have self control because of the way i was raised.
As someone who grew up in the 2000s, I also appreciate that I grew up and went through childhood without the negative influences of technology, and with good parents who taught me good manners and habits. Back in those days the most advanced technology people carried around were flip phones, I remember as a kid I would sometimes ask my parenta for their flip phone to mess around with when I was bored, but because there simply wasn't much to do, it wasn't a bad experience as I had to innovate to entertain myself with what little it offered, often I would go to the phone camera and start messing with the filters and settings which fascinated me as a kid. World clock and the currency converter tool also fascinated me.
At restaurants my parents taught me to not goof around and talk to the other people at the table, so even at a young age I developed an interest for having discussions with people on various topics. I remember I often had discussions about astronomy with my uncle, we were both fascinated with astronomy and I rambled on about what little I knew about the topic back then. But at least it provided for good quality family/relative time. I also remember critically studying the furniture and utensils at restaurants when I was bored back when I was a kid, that was a good way for me to ease the boredom without disturbing others.
Looking back, especially after seeing these videos of gen alpha being completely consumed by their devices, those simpler times back then really were the good times.
Also what happened to just coloring on the little paper and 2 crayons the restaurant gives them lol. I used to love that stuff!
I am gen-z and I work in a pediatric medical center. These children are not even capable of standing on a scale without their ipad. I’ve had 6 month old babies not be able to be separated from the screen. They will scream as soon as you take the iphone cocomelon away from them and won’t stop until the screen is brought back. It is so shocking to see 9-10 year olds who cannot speak to me because I’m not the ipad. Parents laugh as if its so funny… but I find it incredibly sad.
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I can speak to doctors, etc. but sometimes I’m js shy, so I get it.
I remember getting a broken flip phone at the age of 10. All it could do was play different sound effects and ring tone options. I was absolutely mesmerized for days. I can’t even imagine the overwhelming stimulation an iPad must provide at an even earlier age. I feel for these kids, they can’t choose their parents.
When I was 8 or 9, I got my first iPhone which was an old phone of my grandma. I wasn’t allowed to have any social media’s so I would just play games on it. I still can’t understand how parents allow their 10 year old kid to have Instagram or TikTok when I was allowed insta by my mom at the age of 14 (art account). Seriously social media has a horrible impact on a poor child’s brain, especially Insta and TikTok. I tell this by an experience by myself installing a not really famous social media at the age of 12 and with it having a horrible effect and trauma on me. I feel sorry for gen alpha tbh
My phones is till so old that it still has the home button ☺️
The kids ignoring their grandparents hurts me so badly, I lost my grandfather after Christmas last year and I think kids need to appreciate their grandparents more.
Damn that's depressing :'(
Most of my grandparents were dead before i was even born, with the exception if my paternal granddad, who died when i was 1 y/o
Sometimes i wonder what it could've been like if they lived just a little longer, especially my maternal grandma, and how happy she would be to have properly met me, my brothers and our baby cousin
It’s just sad, and it makes me mad….they should appreciate their grandparents, cause guess what?! I never got to meet my own…they live very far. Before they all passed away, I’d always say “I’m going to go visit them when I’m older!”….but that didn’t end up happening…..I miss them every day…and I wish I had more time with them…❤
Me and my siblings ignore our grandparents but it’s not because of technology it’s because all of our life our grandpa refused to say that we existed and our grandma just emotionally abused me and my sisters saying that we belonged in the kitchen and that i (age13) is supposed to be getting ready to get married and is always saying that im ugly and should get plastic surgery so that I don’t have a small chest and a small butt. So that is why my siblings and me have ignored our grandparents
My biggest regret in life is being too lazy to see my family around my Dying old female Chihuahu named Nala.
I lost two of my three surviving grandparents* within eight months of each other and I feel the exact same way. I’m a young millennial/old gen-z, so I wasn’t quite as attached to technology as kids these days are, but I still feel guilty for not being present with them as much as my siblings or cousins could because I moved so far away from them for college/work/school.
*edit: the fourth grandparent passed away from cancer at age 77, when I was 4.5 years old. It still hurts to think about how little of them I can remember. The other three lived well into their 90s (one died at 92, another at 95) and my last surviving grandparent just turned 90 a couple of weeks ago.
I couldn't imagine my childhood memories being a screen and blinding light instead of playing in the dirt and pretending that rocks and sticks could be anything I wanted, I'm still a teen and I honestly miss the times were I could sit in my bedroom and look at two toys and play for hours and hours without getting bored or tired but now I scroll for an hour and I'm exhausted from doing nothing at all.
Me Too
Just imagine 15 years later gen alpha would remember their childhood looking at a screen for the whole day, no friends, no toys, no social life, no cartoons and story books, no affection of parents, crappy attention span.
I am a 2008 kid, one of the last Gen Z i also got a phone when i was about 4 but my parents always monitored me and i spent most of my childhood in cartoons, playing outside, gadgets and friends. I spent my childhood alongside technology not with technology. Atleast i could tell my children about my happy childhood where's the Ipad kids would tell they used to watch those crappy cocmelon and skidpi toilet.
@@Akshat699-c3yim gen alpha and i reported skibidi toilet so many times because it is so annoying and a stupid thing to think about
I literally grew up with this stuff too. Im 13 . I actually used these devices to learn. How is this possible… i guess its based off where you grow up
@@Akshat699-c3yGeneration Z lasts until 2012 actually
I will not be surprised if these kids visit their iPad and put their actual parents in a nursing home and their actual parents are like “wE RaSeD YoU” and their kids are like “who are you again?”
It’s so scary to see the ignorance in those millennial parents and, at the same time knowing that so many teachers all around the world quit their jobs due to burnouts, bullying, not being able to get through to those kids and not getting payed enough for what they do
Gen-X mostly, Millennials aren't having kids
They didn't back the teachers up. They want the teachers to be the parents too.
EXACTLY!!!! I feel horrible for teachers who have to teach in this society 😭
I'm 37, and I was finally able to get my own iPad last year... 😭 But yeah, I feel that many Millennials were raised with the idea that you HAD to have kids when they reached adulthood, whether they were ready for it or not. It looks like many of em were not ready and had zero clue on what goes into raising a kid that will be well prepared later in life to be an adult ready to take on what they please. I myself don't want to raise kids because I went through some abuse shit from my parents and now that I'm free, I'm essentially playing catch-up on life while healing. Don't think I will do a kid any favors if I were to have them now.
THIS! I think so many people from our generation (I’m 35) still felt pressured and thought they HAD to reproduce, so many were not ready to be a parent AT ALL… I also chose not to have kids, I don’t really want that at all 😅. I hope younger generations don’t feel pressured into having kids if they don’t want to. This is the result of that, parents who don’t care about raising their kids. And a lot of emotionally unintelligent people teaching other humans the same flaws.
Yes, I feel like we were pressured to follow the same steps as boomers without realizing that the world wasn't the same where many families had 5+ children before the parents hit 30. I'm 33
@TheUnitAce I've known folks in their 40s to conceive kids. It's not common, but it does happen! But yeah, kids are not in my picture.
Around 2000 the daytime talkshows were still immensely popular. A common topic were "out of control" teen girls desperate to have a baby to love them. Childfree and 30, I couldn't relate. Another thing were those self-exploitative rainbow parties many teens were having. But yep, now these babies are all grown up asking questions of your peers.
@@ellyberryyup, I’ve had multiple cousins have kids in the 40s. Some planned, some by accident. I had one cousin get pregnant after she got her tubes tied 😩
My mother has been a teacher for 38 years, she has taught everything from kindergarten (5-6 year olds) to 6th grade (11-12 year olds). Her recommendation is no screens at all until 5, then no screens unsupervised until 8-9, 9-13 may be unsupervised but have a set limit on content, 13-17 unsupervised but conduct device checks to make sure they are being safe.
I'm a gen alpha, and its actually sad that so many people just are on their i-pads all day. go outside, play with toys, come on. its actually horrible that people rather i-pads over anything else.
Good for you! 👍
@@JohnnyMcbumbersnazzleKinc3 :D
yeah, atleast i dont scroll on brainrot but these kids know like all the brainrot words and "NOO GIVE ME MY IPAD DFSEFWEHYWHEJ" and NOTHING else
This has been my biggest issue!
My son is turning 2 in May and I was asked from family members if they can get him an iPad for Christmas and I said absolutely not he’s a freaking one year old. Thanks but no thanks. I am terrified of him becoming an iPad zombie. I want him to go outside, play with his toys and get bored. I refuse to ruin his childhood because I am being lazy.
I do give him a little time if tv time to watch Bluey or Ms. Rachel, but that’s all the screen time he gets which is not a lot since we are on routines and he’s mostly exploring.
That's great, moomins is another great show for creativity
@@elina4005 never heard of it! I’ll have to check it out. Thanks!
@steffsrzz4971 the original series is free on TH-cam, there's even a playlist you can save! I hope it's brought you as much joy as it has to me ❤️😊
@@steffsrzz4971Having him watch Bluey is such a legendary thing to do
This was me too! I’m a millennial mom and my gen x mother in law literally begged me to let her buy my son a tablet for his first bday. I told her no. She was so pist. I was like, shouldn’t this be the other way around 😂
I lost my grandfather when I was eleven, but it was so heartbreaking because when my grandmother died, my grandpa couldn't handle his soulmate dying and died two months later. It was the worst year of my life. I wished they where here so I could tell all my accomplishments. Seeing the kids ignore their grandparents is just sad.
7:13 As a gen zer who was technically an ipad 5 year old, I find these devices incredibly harmful to our youth, I myself had my innocence taken away from given that tablet and 0 supervision, worst mistake my parents made, no matter how hard your kids are to deal with, devices are never the way to go, yes you can show them tablets at a young age, but ones more strictly for learning, and supervise their time and what they're doing.
I am part of gen z and had an ipad at 5 but my parents closely monitored what I consumed and how much time I spent. We could only play games on it 2 days a week and I had to get parental approval whenever getting a new game (which didn't happen often). The main games I played were angry birds/cut the rope and I was NEVER allowed on youtube or the internet.
Growing up sister had an iPad and I had an iPod touch. (R.I.P iPod touches) Our parents knew how to discipline us correctly, by letting us have the devices only on weekends. We’d put them up on the fridge at about 8 o clock every Sunday night. It got to the point where my sister and I didn’t have to be told to put up the devices, we just did it and didn’t throw a fit. You can’t even touch a kid’s iPad now with your pinky finger without them attacking you.
im gen z and ive never owned an apple product in my life, (yet) android for life 🙂
@@d.decent Ok
@@d.decent Ok
I'm a kid and i use a tablet. I use it for develop my art, drawings and creating stories, creativity, imagination, and hard work at a very young age. I use my tablet to communicate with friends too, because i cant in real life, they're away from me. (I'm living on another country and its hard to make friends because i dont speak french), so, i communicate and play with them, i never play alone. I use my tablet too to get distracted when my parents are fighting. I dont like getting into trouble, and i know i cant do anything about that even if i try, so instead of crying and making it worse, i just go upstairs on my room with my sister and we just do anything fun to get distracted together. Thanks for reading, keep going, you're a great person, have a good day ❤ (sorry for the bad english, i speak spanish)
eres muy lindo, espero que andas bien y ojalá que todo mejora pronto para ti y tu familia. Cuídate mucho y sigue disfrutando tu vida 🧡
@@jknnifer wow, ese mensaje es para mi o te equivocaste de comentario? Si es para mi, gracias realmente, me alegran esas palabras❤️
Your English is just fine!
@@michaeldpa1333 Woah thank you!❤️
@@roadboad yess, es para ti
If kids need to be glued to an electronic device, get them a kindle fire. It forces kids to read a certain amount of books or time before they can play any games. And if they run out of time, they’ll know they have to read and actually get education before having fun online.
I used to have that when I was young! Especially as I was assigned an IEP. As a gen z, it helped me and my parents, as well as my grandma and aunt READ to me and made me learn efficiently like that. Plus the kindle fire helped me with pronunciation and helped with words I struggled with!
Yeah I loved my kindle because I had a huge reading phase when i was younger
dude a kindle is so smart
youre right
I had a kindle too and I would read books on it and then play games afterwards. It’s very smart! At least it has restrictions
Books can honestly be just as distracting as games it'll just make the kid not like reading
dear ipad parents! when my parents gave me a device at a young age with no restrictions or supervision, it messed me up in the head! all my friends can relate! the internet is a horrible place and your children WILL witness horrible things. i was exposed to violent and inappropriate material online at the ripe age of 9 and some of my friends saw it even earlier than that. PARENT YOUR KIDS OR THE THERAPIST WILL HEAR ABOUT YOU.
I have seen things but my parents took it away and gave me yt kids, it helped me honestly
I saw a lot of gore when I was at the ripe age of 6, specifically HTP and MLP horror. I don't want to point fingers at my parents because they're wonderful parents and do their best which is great! But I wish they supervised me a little more at the timw. They never made the same mistake again with my siblings, don't worry! 😅
Personally I agree. I got exposed to pornography(specifically softcore and hentai) at ages 4-10.
I’m hypersexual rn and I rly made some of my friends uncomfortable! :( honestly just don’t give your child an ipad AT ALL until there at least 6
@@inactvekuwn 4-10 ? That's awful.
I hope you 're doing okay. It might sound weird but if possible, try to get into therapy, it might help a lot!
@@alFaCentauri16 I am, and I’m doing better now then I was two year ago
I was having a conversation with my mom about how a lot of gen alpha kids are so spoiled and how they will never experience the time where having a smart phone was rare/semi-rare and she immediately compared me (gen z) to gen alpha and their abandonment issues with their iPads because I just wanted to listen to music while I was cleaning.
And that's one of the huge differences between gen z and gen alpha. We can put our shit down when we're asked to and we can usually put it down ourselves when we decide "that's enough internet for today."
I am SO glad I grew up in the early 2000's/2010's with no access to the internet until like 2013 (the earliest I can remember anyways). My limited screentime is something I would've never thanked as a kid, BUT THANK YOU LIMITED SCREENTIME FOR MAKING ME AVOID ACTING LIKE THESE KIDS!!!
@TheUnitAcenice rage bait buddy! anyways fun fact: an artist in seattle by the name of bill braun gained notoriety for his hyperrealistic paintings that appear to be made out of construction paper, however all of these paintings are 2D and its all based on his incredible skill for shading and textures.
Sorry most of genZ is just as fucked as genA, both generations are having all sorts of issues not seen until millennials got on the scene. Being raised online, inside, and with no real thought or creativity required, IQ rates are dropping dramatically just in the last generation...and that's going to cause a whole new set of really big problems when the younger generations are not smart enough to keep vital infestruxture working as the older experienced generations die off.
@@imdoctorkris OMG I LOVE HIM SO MUCH
@TheUnitAce blah blah blah, I was one of them iPad kids. Look at me now I’m f*cking fine and a normal person!
Everyone is just overreacting, kids are kids and have addictive personalities.
This is what everyone was saying about tv and sh*t when I was little, no one talks about that anymore because guess what? It didn’t rot people’s brains or make them idiots.
Same with iPads.
Hope you have a wonderful day!
I do find a lot of Gen Z addicted to tech (as a Millennial born in '87). I truly can remember a pre-internet/pre-cell world. It began changing when I was in HS, so by the time Gen Z entered the world, things were really changing. I will say that when it came to cellphones, they weren't super "smart" until Gen Z was hitting MS age. Most people did not own IPads.@TheUnitAce
I feel like my devices slightly help me focus, especially videos like these, that i can just listen to while doing chores and stuff. But using a device at the dinner table is CRAZZYYY
As a mom, I was shocked how much screen time is forced on kids by schools. Like for winter break they kept telling parents to make sure to let our kids get time to play on their recommended sites/apps.
I think they’re saying don’t force your child to study the entire winter break. Sure limit their screen time but let them play. I think that’s what they’re saying?
@@Justcallmerosa so the websites are educational and each student has an account created by the school. Teachers track how much work each student completes on these sites. They spend school hours working on completing these tasks online. When they aren’t completing tasks fast enough they are required to do them at home. These online tasks are very time consuming so that means more screen time and less time for kids to just play.
I’m in school to be an educator myself, and I want to teach English, specifically. I wanted my lessons to focus around self expression through writing, with a heavy focus on journaling & using pen and paper for notes. They just won’t allow it. The curriculum since the pandemic (in my district at least) practically mandates kids use chromebooks. They say it’s more “inclusive” this way- I don’t see it. You can buy composition notebooks for 50 cents at practically any grocery store, it’ll be the most inexpensive thing on your shopping list, but no. The thousand dollar laptops and tablets are the “inclusive” way of teaching kids. What on earth are we coming to? I feel like a “back in my day” grandma before crossing 30.
@@probablyjustsnailsoh my god, it's so sad to read how this "inclusive" nonsense is killing your creativity. I bet none of those people have never written a letter or season's greetings by hand.
I find this truly concerning.
@@probablyjustsnails My kid’s TK and kindergarten teachers didn’t even sing to the kids, instead they played them TH-cam videos on the projector. I remember one of my favorite things about kindergarten was the singing together with the teachers during circle time. Now it’s everyone stare at the screen together.
I'm a firm believer in "flip phone as early as possible, touchscreen phone only when they get to high school" for this reason
That's how i was raised, though, i will admit, i was VERY apprehensive to me obtaining a smartphone because i was afraid i'd become addicted to it and try to text and drive or whatever else brain on airplane mode nonsense you expect to happen. I can successfully say i have not texted and driven, at least.
I believe in letting them run around in the backyard (WITH SUPERVISION) outside, heavily filtered family computer and non-digital toys inside as early as possible; flip phone from grade 4 onwards; and finally their own smartphone at around puberty
I would give the mf'ing Nokia
I think it’s ok to have an iphone in middle school/late elementary school if you have proper restrictions, but you definitely shouldn’t let them be glued to their device watching TH-cam/TikTok.
I got a little Nokia flip phone when i was like 3 or 4 IIRC(now 17, also i played the SHIT out of Dungeon Hunter 3 on that thing, good times), and my first touch screen when i was i think 7 or 8
It's not that bad to give kids tech in late elementary school or middle school, it can even be healthy, as long as you ensure they're getting other forms of entertainment
I was absolutely ENAMORED with reading Shakespeare at night, or i'd take my little Hot Wheels to church, or my toy Power Rangers when i went to dinner
Technology is an AMAZING complement for kids' learning, hell i learned to speak english all on my own because of my ps2(i live in Brazil so that was all we could really afford at the time), BUT IT SHOULDN'T BE THE ONLY THING A KID DOES
I’m 14 (freshman in highschool), but all of my older siblings are relatively older Gen-Z (oldest is 27, youngest besides me is 17) so I grew up with all of the typical kid stuff. We played outside for HOURS, we made mud pies, we made bathroom potions, we played “spies” at Christmas where we would all try to steal candy, we played with American Girl Dolls and Squinkies, I was borderline obsessed with Club Penguin, Webkinz, Minecraft and Poptropica. I look back on those memories fondly because I know that I had the most fun I could’ve. It makes me sad that these kids won’t ever get to do rhat
Your childhood sounds amazing! I'm so glad your parents raised you and your siblings right and that you have a beautiful relationship with your older siblings :)
That's a sad child hood no technology you are the past
@@WhipplesMemes I had plenty of technology. I played Minecraft religiously growing up
Man, glad I’m not the only one who remembers Squinkies. My parents (especially my dad) always talked about how I’d lose them because they’re so small, which actually did end up happening to quite a few of my favorites. :'D And Webkinz! I had probably over 100 at one point, but had to get rid of most of them. Glad they still live happily on the ~14 year old account my dad made for me ages ago, even if I can’t remember my password. I’ve been searching the house for one of my secret codes, though!
@brotheranimations1848 A child??? Playing a game made for children??? That literally harms no one??? Unbelievable!1!1!!1!1!1
I didn’t have an IPad till I was 9. I was raised by play dates, coloring, drawing, playing with toys, learning, reading, and writing. To see babies that aren’t even 1 years old have Phones and iPads is wild. A screen will not educate a child, the iPad will only keep disconnecting the child from reality, till they become a zombie. Instead of these children playing and having fun and using their creative imaginative brains, their eyes are glued to an iPad. Just imagine those iPad kids when they think back to their childhood, how they should’ve been having fun with kids their age and being creative and enjoying being social but instead the iPads kids’ only memories are of them being glued to a screen 24/7. Heart breaking.
I’m from the older half of GenZ (2003) and this is very telling of how some people should NOT be parents.
Growing up, I didn’t have an iphone or an iPad or even a kindle…. I had a MP3 PLAYER!!!
I didn’t have my own phone or social media until 9th grade….. 9TH GRADE!!
The only stuff I watched as a kid was either the movies or tv shows we had on VHS or DVD or watching PBS Kids (PBS Kids>>> Disney Channel)
I love how these parents love to make fun of us GenZ for our “poor behavior”… while also simultaneously being the same parents who shove an iPad in a 3 year olds face..🥴🥴
Same here had an mp3 player and we didn't even have a T.V. until 2010 and had to share a flip phone with my dad through HS. This will be the first generation where the poorest kids in school have the greatest advantage in grades and social conduct because if you can't afford electronics then you can't have them raise your kids.
The Millennial Parent saying that Generation Alpha would be ruthless tickled me pink. When I was their age, I played outside, had an unending obsession with history, and enjoyed reading nonfiction. They can’t read, don’t know where they live, and are glued to their devices. Those kids are lambs to the slaughter. It’s tragic the situation they are in.
@@teadrinker3290Fellow nonfiction enjoyer!
I'm in 9th grade now and by my own choice, I don't have any mainstream social media.
@@wafflesaucey You're on TH-cam.
There’s a Chinese show called “Be with You “ where older brothers have to take of their little sisters while the parents are away for a while,one of the kids always ate her dinner while watching an iPad , she was four years old, her older brother tried to take it away she started crying, the parents told the brother to just let her have it,When the older brother was left in charge of his sister she didn’t give her her iPad while she was eating, the brother wouldn’t give it to her. The older brother was about nineteen years (the show came out in 2021 ) so there’s a fifteen year age gap. Which means the older brother was born when the iPad first came out.
I've read so many comments about older siblings, some still minors, who have taken a parental role for their younger siblings, because their parents neglect them. Today a read a comment from a kid who taught their younger sibling how to read. I would be so ashamed if one of my children was more of a mentor and parent than me. My parents always read to me and made sure I was at an appropriate reading level. Those are some of our favorite memories. It's so sad that parents avoid things, that make happy childhoods and are one of the most rewarding aspects of parenthood. Instead of spending quality time and making memories, they shut their kids down, because spending time with them is exhausting apparently. I would miss my child if it was glued on their iPad instead of eating and talking with me. They are physically there but not mentally.
I was also born when the iPad came out
when a doctor gives you advice on how to treat your cold, the doctor doesn't necessarily have to have a cold too at the moment.
same follows for a person who never raised a child giving you advice on how to raise it
I was in drama last year and LORD we had to have a rule for no phones backstage because everyone would miss their entrance. It was so bad
Hey Gen z ipad kid, I have horrible emotional problems & struggle to communicate because my mother didn't want to raise me & just threw a tablet at little me. I got lucky though, & I was really into books & reading so I can sit down for long chunks of time to read but It makes me sick to see parents raising a generation like this. I didn't turn out okay being raised like this & there is no way the next generation can survive like this.
Side note, I'm Australian, but I have a very noticeable american accent because Dantdm & Markiplier talked to tiny me more than my mom did, kinda funny if you look at it right.
Same here, I hate that I got a tablet at a early age, now my life is only centered around my phone and I hate it cause I’m addicted
@@MoorSliderSad times laddy
Good iPad kid?
bad start but good ending
I’m fucking SIXTEEN and I’m worried for the next generations
I feel like our future is doomed
It is. If the dumbing down of the generation doesn't scare you the population collapse should. When all the competent people die off the rest are screwed.
It doesn’t have to be, raise yours to be better than that. Here’s to you from a 22 year old
Yeah, to be fair, it's really a case by case kinda thing. Something that can be rectified with effort and responsibility on the parent's side. Sort of a "be the change you want to see in the world" type of thing.
I'm thirteen and when I get a kid, I will get them a device at a young age, but first, I'll teach my kid to read, play with them, and get them to love real life to the point where they don't use their devices often when they get one. My parents did it to me - it worked.
@@vizenbre1658doesnt matter if you raise your kid good when most of that generation and society is destroyed. Still going to be a bleak society.
I was diagnosed with ADHD way before youtube became a thing at the age of 7.
If I acted up I got physically hit because my mom being full Korean was raised the same way.
10 years later at age 17 my sister noticed I had symptoms of depression and ptsd so she took me over to get evaluated, I got diagnosed with anxiety, depression and ptsd just because my ignorant mother was so ignorant towards what ADHD was and was trying to beat the illness out of me..
ADHD doesn't go away..
I'm sorry this happen, I relate as someone who’s not adhd but autistic
Literally same! Got my adhd diagnoses at 9, several others while I'm an adult. I'm dutch and my dad used to b34t me when I was frustrated with my mental health. Think my dad should've tried harder to correct my mental state cuz it's still sh!t lol. It's "funny" to see this an international problem with less or more conservative ways of thinking. Even though they keep forgetting that adhd is most likely hereditary and they might suffer from it too.
Hope our gen is gonna be better and more understanding to mental health issues.
Don't think neglecting and shoving an ipad Infront of a (mentally ill) kid is the best thing to do rn.
Yeah and giving ipads to 1 year olds gives them worse symptoms than how you were as a kid. Kids nowadays are adhd from ipads ngl
@@jian6569 Yeah my parents I've noticed after I started paying attention to it show so many signs of adhd and autism 😭
adhd a lie
ther is something that scares me cus as a kid my mom used to say that "if you play too much your hand will get stuck like that forever!"
and its happening for real now?!?
All these parents are doing is exposing to the world that they had kids because they were bored and now that the entertainment value has run out, they want the kids out of the way as much as possible.
Or just wanted to be mommy bloggers
@@noahbossier1131yup.
as a gen z i'm genuinely scared for gen alpha. Like the first years of Gen alpha was starting to get to high school and they are unhinged. Obviously I don't want to repeat my grade, but the extra motivation is that if i do I'll end up in a class full of gen alpha kids.
This is a trend I will not follow with my kids. They gonna be outside
ok but remember to teach them aswell
Keep an eye on them when they play outside pls
these responses lmao. no shit, sherlock!
Sadly with what the world has come to, I’m not even quite sure anymore if they could be outside safe with or without you watching.
@ville__ L bait
10:17 best impression of that woman i’ve ever seen lmao 🤣
I have a cousin who is gen alpha and im pretty happy with how shes being raised. She has a very healthy imagination. When we were visiting all she wanted to do was pretend to be witches with me the entire time. She did have an ipad which she showed me some of her favorite games on and played some with me, but generally she was so talkative and energetic with me I was honestly wishing shed go on her ipad at some points. (I mean she would wanna play witches with me the entire day, like 8 hours straight). But shes very kind, compassionate, and energetic. So i have a lot of hope for her.
Same here!
Yesterday the nurse at our pediatricians office was surprised that I was able to hold a conversation with my three year old. (Convinceing him to allow the exam to go forward.) It broke my heart because she interacts with children all day long.
As a gen z, I feel awful for generation Alpha, and what they are exposed to online when the “parents” aren’t supervising, not to mention the developmental effects and shortened attention! When I was quite little, my parents made the mistake of giving me an iPad (they didn’t really know at the time so it’s not their fault) and I found some really messed up stuff, and it desensitized me to violence (not video games I mean real people). Many other things have happened since then that I am currently working on, although being exposed to things in my formative years definitely had a profound effect on me. Sorry for the rant I just want people to be careful
I got groomed because of my iPad lol and even met the groomer it's so dangerous
@@mittag983 I’m so sorry that happened I had people like that but never actually met up with anyone I can’t imagine I hope you’re ok ❤️ stay safe
@@mittag983Don't drop a lol at that. Talk to someone g
would you mind elaborating on how your brain would react to (real life) violence post de sensitization? i’ve always been interested in this and want to understand it more
@@ally241 I’m not really phased by violence in real life, presumably due to the exposure, I’ll try my best to stop it when I can although I’m not emotionally affected by it. I also find it harder to control urges to hurt myself or lash out at others but I try not to, currently taking DBT therapy for borderline personality disorder which is helping this those urges. Sorry this is so jumbled it’s very early in the morning hope this helped!
Hello, I am a Gen alpha and I just LOVE watching your videos about other kids my age it is so amusing to me! And yes I can read and write
Seeing kids so engrossed with devices that they ignore their families is so heartbreaking to me. I am only 20 but when i was gen alphas age, I was basically pleading to go to my grandparents, to hang out with my family. Sure I had access to videos games, computers and tv, and eventually my smart phone or a tablet, but I still would much rather interact with my grandparents. My sister is gen alpha and ever since my mom passed away when my sister was basically a toddler my dad has been raising her as an iPad child, so whenever she goes to my grandparents, she is just completely ignorant to everything but the damn iPad, it’s just incredibly sad. I dread the inevitable day my grandparents pass away as they were such a massive part of my childhood, I was at their house weekly, it was like my second home. But my sister I am doubtful is going to be nearly as impacted since she barely knows them, she’d rather watch brain numbing videos all day instead.
I know im askin a lot as a stranger, but please PLEASE teach her things like colouring, getting her actual toys, i know 20 yrs old is not very ideal for earning, but whenever ur around her, just take away the device and interact with her, and if you're with ur grandparents do the same thing. it isn't our job to raise these kids but at least we can make sure they r somewhat functional without a device in their hands. also I'm sorry about your mom, and i hope you're doing good.
This is so damn fucked up.
Bless you sir
As a late Gen Z to early Gen Alpha, I have to say
What the absolute heck is going on with my generation.
Never did I think others would get this bad. I did a middle school play production that included the 5th and 4th graders, and there were girls blasting Tiktoks and putting on Drunk Elephant products. They even got yelled at to pay attention and didn't do anything. Not only that, but they are the meanest little plebs I've ever talked to. A girl named Vanessa who used to be my friend on the bus, was shoving me around and almost knocking me over backstage. She didn't say "Excuse me" or "Sorry" at all. She didn't even need to get through. My family's last visit to a restaurant I could hear kids screaming for IPads, while we were there getting food and I was putting my device away kindly. I feel like those parents are too self-centered to care about their barely functional toddlers that are rotting from a bright screen in their face almost every day.
As a slightly older gen z, there were kids acting like that when I was in middle school. But instead of tiktok it was instagram and musically, best you can do is not get too invested in this stuff and standing up for yourself when others are being weird to you. Keep your head up champ!
@@butwhyyyyyy Thanks!
As an early gen alpha, I hereby apologize on behalf of my entire species. I have no idea what went wrong.
@@Ilikewofandwarriorcats LOL maybe it covers half but thanks
As an gen alpha, I dont do any of this, We apologise
7:26 i can't believe that there are people that raise their kids like this. I go get a haircut, I chat with my barber. It's called socialising. I'm almost 15, and I'm genuinely concerned about the future because some of these parents do not have time or care about their OWN CHILDREN
Or bring a book/kindle and read it’s ridiculous they have time to scroll for their kids but not teach them manners.
For some reason whenever I try to socialize with my barber, my mom tells me to quiet down to let barber focus when she's not doing any hand gestures anyway
My hairstylist talks so much and I just stare into the abyss and answer her questions when she asks one. When I’m not answering her questions I analyze how she washes my hair and cuts it so I can maintain it and I also just think and daydream
When I'm at the barber, I usually close my eyes or soullessly stare at the mirror
That woman saying "give advice when you don't have kids... (laugh)" : how did the million parents do before the iPads existed ???? Their kids were raised, not just fed out of junk food and put in front of a screen with uncontrolled free access to the whole world most creepy content ! This is not parenting : this is downright neglect and denial. I am really scared about the future of the society, when these screwed kids will have to handle the country. So it's good to see there are still some young people like you out there, who still know what responsibility and accountability are. Thanks for this video !!
At work, we are dreading GenAlpha moving into the workforce. GenZ is on their phones a whole lot already (though they can put them away when a task requires full attention), and we can’t imagine what GenAlpha will be like.
Aside from the iPad/phone addiction (and they are NOT using it to read news or books, of course), they are being given food that they want. They are not eating real food. They are eating ultra processed junk food. They are literally going to be the people in the floaty chairs in Wall-E.
Also, when you pay for a restaurant meal or a ticket to an event and the child is not engaged in it, it’s a total waste of money.
yeah watch these ipad parents bad parenting backfire in their face when their kid is unable to hold down a job due to their poor social skills, entitlement, and bad attention span and then have their kids lash out at them to give them money and housing afterwards. Bet theyd start regretting not properly disciplining their kids by then
I talked about this with my mum and her best friend, they have the same views as us.
My older sister (a milenial) became a teacher, she said "I'm not doing this, absolutely not.". Her problem is the kids, that have no respect, and the parents wanting the teachers to raise their children. And if the kids act up, the parents blame the teachers and defend their children. Nothing wrong with standings behind your child, but it's a child, you can't just blindly belive them and not correct them. And then be angry with other people correcting or redirecting your child.
This is so apocalyptic and distopian.
I'm a 13-14 year old girl.. and god.. i have NEVER ONCE in my life ever been able to use a ipad at the dinner table? DUDE- I WOULD BE DEAD IF I DID THAT, i didn't even know what youtube was until i was like 11. and that was only because i had to watch a math tutor ON TH-cam- What is going on in this world...
Yeah, I can relate. I did not know about phones until 2012 (fyi, I was born in 2006), and did not get even a mobile until 2015, when I managed to get back home alone (my mom was very scared, so we both managed to scare ourselves because of me wanting to surprise mom). The first video games I played were on a school tablet. First time I found TH-cam was when I was 9-10 ish, but I only looked at minecraft videos in my language. And my cousin, born just before I found TH-cam, got a tablet at 3 years old (I will admit tho, my aunt is doing a very good job limiting his screentime and giving him taste of the outside). If I tried to use my phone at the table, I would have gotten a scolding (as if a mobile Nokia phone has many games). Honestly, I don't expect much of anything from the new gen. : (
I didn’t watch TH-cam until I was like 9 or 10
Around that age
I once lashed out at an relative for
Pointing me out for watching TH-cam during breakfast,
Now I understand that they were right about it
It's also that I was raised in home
it's either home or school or something, so the place to be is though phone and tech
Only now I feel the disconnection I have with others, don't know some of my relatives much better and don't even remember their names, there are people in the Neighborhood that i know minus shit about only now because of tution I get to know some of them there. But I spended years as the kid who doesn't go outside
I'm so disconnected for something online
Also
do you have the memory of
Hanging out somewhere with your friends outside doing something, I don't, not yet at least
As a Gen Z with a Gen Alpha sister, I am GLAD that my Millennial parents don’t treat us like this. My sister is six years old and she won the spelling bee in her school and had almost memorized the multiplication table. If she had her face glued to a screen the whole time, she probably wouldn’t be able to spell “juice.”
I feel like society is doomed now, there’s no way we can go back from this. I spend most of my time on an iPad myself and I hate it, it really bothers me that the first thing I do when I’m bored is go on my tablet. I’m just glad that I still know it’s not good and I need to limit myself, these kids don’t know or care and their parents only enable them
It’s not, I swear to you.
As an elder iPad kid, I’ll be the First to tell you these people who say you will never get better or are broken are WRONGGGGGGGG!
They just don’t know any of us, and your attention span isn’t broken or short!
(you probably just have a hard time finding things you like to do, and that’s okay not everyone has to like the same things)
And you can get a longer one because guess what? Your brain is mouldable! It will change and you will get that focus back!
Read fanfic or comics! Read a book or listen to a audiobook, you can’t change immediately that isn’t a thing.
It’s slow, and that’s okay! 100% lemme tell you your attention span isn’t short it’s just you don’t have anything interesting to do.
Society isn’t doomed, if this stuff was real and not fear mongering we would have short attention spans Because of fast paced tv shows, gambling, and their jobs.
But no that’s not really a thing, it’s usually addiction caused by neurodivergentcy or strange brain processes.
Your not evil, your not bad, you’re trying and that’s AWESOME!!!
If you want to regain your attention span? Read some fanfic or original stories on ao3 it will help LOADSSS
You got this!
Society isn’t ruined, the kids are fine, and you are going to be okay.
I’m not lying, I thought I was doomed to be an iPad kid forever. But guess what? I grew out of it!
You’re going to be just fine, you are not broken or ruined you are going to be fine
@@PopthebopI don’t even have the attn span to read your whole comment lol
I feel that so much. I try to limit it but it’s so accessible
I agree sadly, the world is nothing like it was in the 90’s/early 2000’s. People actually spent time with each other, went out places, knew their neighbors, had a community. My neighborhood growing up was like family, they’d help me without a thought. I don’t even know who my neighbors are now.
@@Popthebopgigachad
Gen Z, as yall start having kids, please stand strong 🙏🏻 I’m an older Millennial with ipad-less 6, 3, and 1 year olds, and I feel so helpless amongst this. I’m worried for society.
We are often the only family at restaurants without kids on tablets. We TEACH THEM how to behave and have good table manners. We’re teaching them how to have a conversation with their family, enjoying a meal together. It doesn’t happen immediately but it’s worth the effort.
Parenting is really hard, but you still have to actually do the work. Sometimes my kids whine that they are bored. Sometimes my toddler has a meltdown in a restaurant. Sometimes I’d like to enjoy a conversation with my husband over dinner without being interrupted 🙃 But that’s the job and I’d rather have kids who are not dependent on devices in the long run.
I’m a Zer and I will definitely raise my kids the way they’re supposed to be raised 🫡
Heck I might even buy a 1996 Chevy Suburban to drive them around in 🙃
If they still exist of course.
I’m a younger Zer, and I don’t plan on having kids, but if I ever do, I would NEVER do this. It’s sick and disgusting that these kids can’t go to DINNERS and SPORTS EVENTS without the IPad. Thank you for being one of the good ones 🫡🫡
We need more parents like you, miss (?). I can already see a difference between 9th graders and my classmates, and they are still GEN Z. I will not be in school by the time the new generation shows up, but if my teachers already have some problems with the 9th graders, I would not be surprised if the new gen is more degraded than an iron axe left outside for 20 years.
As a gen alpha (not a iPad kid)
Thank you, please keep raising your kids like that.
@@elise.ch4nn You’re one of the good Gen Alpha kids
I'm a millennial parent, and yeah, it's shocking to see the amount of kids, some who are still in strollers, on a phone while they're out with their parents. I find it's most common at the grocery store that a kid is sitting in the cart and watching a phone while the parent(s) shop. Seems like such a missed opportunity to connect with your kids and teach them about what grocery shopping is and what food is. It's just super weird to not want to chat and connect with your kids.
I'm Gen Z. My little cousins are Gen Alpha. There's a boy and a girl. Whenever they didn't do what I asked or told them to do(usually to stop hitting each other or messing with each other), I took the ipads away and put them where the children couldn't reach them. The boy would throw these massive tantrums-screaming, crying, kicking, hitting, and scratching me like a wild fucking animal over it. No matter how many times I calmly explained to him why I took it away and why what he was doing was the wrong course of action, he didn't listen. Only screeched like a demon and charged at me. By now, both of those kids only respect me and no one else. I taught them manners and I make sure they maintain them when I'm watching them or when I'm around. But back then in the early days when they were still testing their boundaries with me, I would have to bodily pick both of them up and carry them to their rooms to set them on their beds. I didn't take their TV remotes away, I didn't take every form of entertainment in their rooms away like my father did to me when he thought I was being too annoying for his liking. I would tell them to just calm down, play with their toys by themselves for a little bit, then I would call them out for a snack or the next meal. And eventually, they learned that if they did what I asked when I asked them to do it, they got rewarded for their good behavior.
The boy will be 13 in October and the girl just turned 8 in June. They are both attending summer school because they are behind in several areas by entire GRADES. I have tried my damndest to save these kids from the way their parents are raising them on their technology, but my aunt and uncle get defensive every time they notice me parenting their kids better than they are, so I can't keep it up always. Now, we're stuck in some kind of horrible limbo where the children only respect and listen to me but behave terribly with everyone else. The only other person they don't act like absolute Gremlins with is my father, but that's because he made them fear him when they were young, just like he did to me as a child. Their relationship with my father is just as toxic as their relationship with their parents. I can't save them from this, because they're not my kids, and it makes me cry whenever I think about it.
Kudos to you. I'm Gen X, and my old classmates (Class of 82) have grandkids that age now. Same horror stories. You may have saved those kids' lives in more ways than one.
BTW we didn't all raise millennials. A lot of Millenials were born to Boomers in their 30s and even 40s. For the most part we were skipped over.
Not Hailey literally being a better parent than full grown adults 😭✋
some parents are better than hailey
@@therealzemokuOSCyea
@@therealzemokuOSC obv
@@therealzemokuOSC what's that supposed to mean? 😅
as a gen alpha myself, me and my brother were at a restaurant reading a book while waiting for our meals and the waiter came up and CONGRATULATED us because most kids are on an iPad. WHAT WORLD DO WE LIVE IN
edit: how did i get so many likes
I'm almost the same age I'm gen alpha at least in there are some good apples
I used to really like my iPad (not like bringing it everywhere I just found it as a escape) but I found a hobby to get rid of it and it’s going well!
@@gudetamathelazyegg_ im so happy for you man❤
@@chayy_90 thank you
@@gudetamathelazyegg_thats great! I was kinda similar with my phone but then i picked up crocheting and now i think i have a yarn addiction... But id rather be a yarn zombie than a phone zombie
As a younger gen z, I learned to read when I was two. My sister is seven and still learning to read. I was reading HARRY POTTER by then. My sister won’t even eat dinner with us, she’ll sit and watch her IPad and draw with an Uncrustable. The good thing is that she’s developed since then. She’s starting to read chapter books, will actually talk and play and run around the house and spends time outside. If you’re wondering, I got my first device when I was in 6th grade (sketchy city). My sister got her first device when she was one. ONE. Folks, take a break from the phones. Spend time with your siblings, your kids, your cousins, whatever.
AT 1 YEAR OLD IS INSANE.....😊
BRO ONE?! i got my first REAL device when i was 8. and yeah it may sound insane but i learned how to read at 3, and i was reading stuff like harry potter and/or stephen king! sometimes my parents let me watch but thats only if its a small meal. but i can still put the damn thing down! but im glad shes playing outside and stuff, but you cant just put a device that young
geez i got my first device in middle school
@@rosyellis14 6th grade is middle school
me too, except I’m the youngest gen z currently
I have a younger sibling (7yr old) my brother can not physically function with out a device. if you don’t let him have it he will scream, yell, cry and hit/kick everyone around him..
Jeez, that's horrible.
My father (boomer) had worked his whole life in sales and service at an electronic store and was not a big fan of electronics, my sibling and I (gen Z) were not allowed to get tablets until we turned 6 and were only allowed 1 HOUR a day in supervision from our mom, the tablets had parental controls and only played games. LIKE HOW do these kids spend 6-10 hours on these things a day, I used to spend 6 hours a day outside LIKE WHAT HAPENED TO PLAYING OUTSIDE, WHAT ARE THESE PARENTS DOING leaving their kids like this.
Shit like this is the reason why I miss being a kid back in the 2000’s/2010’s I rarely see kids playing with actual toys anymore what happened??
The parents should just introduced them to iPads and iPhones later when they’re a little older and just let them play with toys or maybe if anything give them the Leapster games if they still have it
@@TVTIME-be8zeOMG I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT THE LEAPFROG LEAPSTERS! HAVEN'T SEEN ANY STORES HAVE THOSES IN YEARS!
No fr. Lego, outside games, making chocolate lolly pops, making those little cards, bracelets, loom bands. That stuff was sick. I miss it. Kids should be going that
Dude I’m was born in 2000 and I still build LEGOs
Sure my ps3 and Wii were fun but I still loved playing with action figures and stuff alike on those years.
like fr i miss playing with barbie’s myself and i’m almost 16?? if i were given the choice to pick either an ipad or a barbie i’d choose the latter tbh
The fact that kids just ignore there grandparents is even worse than them ignoring there parents, because you don’t see your grandparents as often. I was going bowling and getting lunch with them, and the only time I pulled out my phone was to take some pictures of them bowling for my mom.
The complete change of tone at the end is hilarious 😂
Great video btw!
I work at a preschool in Iceland and my coworkers constantly talk about how the kids just get more selfish and mean as the years go by. They’re demanding, they’re rude, and their parents don’t care. One kid only knows the tv as “watch”, one kid spent her entire life just with her mom at home and she’s the biggest problem in our class right now, she bites, pulls hair, hits, and screams almost all day unless we play music or let them watch one episode of the teletubbies, if one kid hears the intro to Bluey she will scream and demand to watch it, one of our two year olds came in the other day with a small video game device, we had to pry it out of her hands.
It scares me more knowing this problem is widespread to other countries too
hayley may not be dominos but she never fails to deliver daily 😂😭
Ok but this is funny 😂
yep
found you
@@kirbyfantheapplefanboy2021 oh wow
Okay just saying this now. I’m definitely not saying millennials aren’t doing this, because yes they definitely are. With that said, it’s not only millennials. I remember 12 years ago going to a restaurant in Washington state - I was with a group of 10 to 12. mostly college kids and some parents. AnyWho, I was the only one who didn’t have their iPhone or tablet out at the table. I was also the youngest one the oldest ranging from 50 to 60. Parents were definitely Gen X . It’s definitely a rich family thing too
Edit: I wanna clarify and not continue to add tension and seperate generations. Yall know every generation has great folks in it :) I think its a rich thing. Like, so rich that you dont understand that u need to buy books for kids, u just buy more tech
My parents are Gen X and I didn’t go outside but I grew up reading, real books, and drawing. The kids around me were all about phones and computers tho so I think you’ve got a point.
I can't believe that iPad parents exist..
Whats next iPad babies?
@@Strawberry_SoftcakeI own 2 iPads & I don’t want kids & I’m age 31 not every millennial wants kids
@@marioantoniocrespoMexican92 well if you don't want any kids I understand
@@Strawberry_Softcake honestly i feel it’s not easy to be a parent. Also I’m a web developer so I’m always busy with my job. But right now I’m focus on myself & my career. Its also expensive having kids
as someone who does eat dinner with technology, the only reason i do is to drown out the noise of chewing because my brother’s chewing is really obnoxious
I have cousins who are millennials and their kids are acting completely normal so far. They don’t have their devices on them 24/7. I’m glad my family tree is smart when it comes to parenting.
Not all millennials want kids
We need more parents like your cousins, Because now parents don’t pay attention to their own kids.
@@marioantoniocrespoMexican92That has nothing to do with the topic on hand.
@@marioantoniocrespoMexican92 Yeah, why are you bringing this up?
@@Cardinal_73 everyone is expecting to have kids in a very conservative society. Not me I’m the exception to the rule
I’m gen z alpha, and even I don’t use my phone when I’m visiting family unless nothing is going on. If nothings going on, I’ll ask my cousins if they wanna do something first. If we can’t figure something out, THEN I’ll go on my phone. It’s so annoying how many kids were raised by iPads. I’m taking a pledge, and I will not give my kid a phone or iPad until they are at the very least 15. I’ll give them a flip phone to call me in case of an emergency, but that’s it until they’re 15.
Same!
The parents of today don’t, won’t, and cant say no to their kids. If they try, the kids (who have no respect) will talk back and be sassy AF.
instead of being born with a silver spoon in their mouth, they’re born with an iPhone glued to their hand. Sigh. It’s hard for us older generations to understand this.
Take their internet away, and they'll learn how to behave realllly quickly
@@ednacole7148 sadly they’ll just get more violent.
I don’t think it’s a lack of respect but more emotional abuse that causes them to talk back. They’ve been neglected for so long, shoved with an iPad and told to just shut up, that they act out when not given what they want. They’ve never been given real love so they relay on the only tools they’re parents have given them, reinforcing in their child that if they kick up a fuse they will get what they want and because the parents don’t have or want to have a backbone they give. What these kids need is emotional support and understanding. Someone who actually cares about them and doesn’t just shove them aside to get them to be quiet. These parents now a days have digged their kids a grave and have already shoved them in.
@@Willow76nyare you afraid they'll beat you up? Let them listen to you call and get it disconnected. Then send them to bed.
@@Willow76ny my dad would whoop my ass into next month if i tried to pick a fight with him, who the fuck lets their kids hit them without consequences?
Listen… I always feel the need to be on my phone, because that’s where my social life has been my whole teenage life. I live an hour from my school and friends, so it’s not as easy as ‘just go to their house’ or ‘just ask your mum to drive you-‘ no, we have to take a whole day for a visit- 😭
So yes, a lot of my time is spent texting, but when I’m not, I’m either OFF. THE. PHONE. with my family, and I barely go on unless I get a text message, or I’m just using it for downtime!
I am shocked, but also not, at how the world is turning out. 😞
I’m so glad I enjoy and appreciate having conversations with people. I just wish I had more people to have normal conversations with 😂
It makes me really sad to see kids ignoring their grandparents and spending time on the iPad instead. I lost my grandpa when I was a literal infant and I would do anything to go back and meet him , and have memories, and moments with him. These kids don’t realize how lucky they are to have this time with their grandparents and clearly don’t appreciate it enough.
As a Generation Jones Boomer. My parents would let us watch a certain amount of tv. When they figured it was enough the tv got turned off and we were told to go play or read a book. I dod the same with my kids when it came to tv and their NES. It helped that my kids were very active and usually preferred playing outside anyway. Me I was more of an inside person reading and doing other things vecause I've been allergic to pretty much everything outside all of my life.
Another rebuttal to the thing at 2:44 is because yeah, that “gotcha” moment is actually somewhat true. But it’s like being an alcoholic and seeing a kid being handed a beer. This is ruining our lives, and it’s heartbreaking to see it start to ruin the life of a kid.
As someone who was born during the start of gen alpha, the fact that my brother who is five spends 24/7 365 on the tv/my mom's phone. He has been saying some cruel words, phrases, etc.
My cousin recently had a child and he is already addicted to screens and has his own tablet to keep him quiet. He's 8 months old
That’s wild.
what the fu-
That’s crazy
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ARE YOU SERIOUS
The kids ignoring the grandparents is SO SADDD. I can’t imagine just ignoring my grandparents when going out to eat. They are gonna regret not taking more time with their grandparents:(
4:03 even as a gen A I don’t eat with a device at the table. It was actually surprising to me that that’s not how it is in so many households
Fr, if we were out or in the house I'd annoy my brother, play games with my parents or at home I'd pet my animals and probably annoy my mom, out id use the crayons and draw on the kids menu or go to get food with my mom or brother