Gen Z is worried they're going to raise a generation of iPad kids

https://www.businessinsider.com/ipad-kids-tiktokers-worried-gen-z-millennials-gen-alpha-2023-11

by type0 • 3 years ago

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turnsout• 3 years ago

Ah yes, their kids will also never eat refined sugar, and will only ever play with wooden toys. Every generation thinks they’ll be the first ones to parent well, and when they inevitably compromise, every generation gets to eat crow.

hinkley• 3 years ago

Every generation focuses on the things they think their parents did badly and some of the things they managed to do well don’t get prioritized. Which includes things their grandparents did badly.

Chesterton’s fence with children.

k1ns• 3 years ago

You could just not buy the kid an iPad…

Bikes, dirt, legos, board games, books, all still exist. Despite what American consumerism would have you think, devices aren’t required to parent your children. We made the decision from the outset not to introduce them into the mix and this insane thing happened: they don’t spend their time on devices.

Sure, their classmates will have them and they will come home asking for this awesome thing they saw so-and-so have at recess. When that happens, you get to do the most important part: you say “no”.

dragonwriter• 3 years ago

Apparently the entire support for this generalization about Gen Z is...the existence of a TikTok trend?

I get that that would be, with a semi-responsible media, something that might raise a question that reasonable investigation would look into and evaluate whether it was a broadly held generational concern and also whether it was a justified, substantive concern, but this seems to miss out on both of those and just be cherry-picking anecdotes of what people are saying in the context of the TikTok trend and stopping there.

Uncritically echoing the latest TikTok trend as a valid generalization of society is... well, admittedly not worse than I expect of Business Insider, but disappointing in an HN submission.

Gen Z is worried they're going to raise a generation of iPad kids

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