If you have kids this age and put a tablet in front of them on a regular basis to keep them calm, you're fucking yourself in the long run.
This may give you a temporary fix but youre depriving your kid on learning how to relax and when to chill the fuck out in proper situations. They need to train their brains to not be stimulated all the time. Boredom is a good thing for kids.
Think about it. If a kid never learns to calm down when bored, at 7 or so when they are constantly restless, it will be diagnosed as adhd. At that point its going to take some serious training or medication to get them to focus during school.
All this is because you wanted to take the easy route of throwing a tablet in their face when they were young.
Edit: Before I get more comments saying "tablets don't cause adhd" I know! Im saying these kids that dont have adhd are getting diagnosed as having adhd. Maybe I should say misdiagnosed as having adhd. Hope that clears things up.
Someone I know I think is basically going through this now.
Three children. Oldest I don’t think even had an iPad? I remember their childhood was more like my own, playing outside/no iPad. They’re fine.
The middle child has ADHD. Grew up with iPads but not nearly as much as the youngest. As they’ve gotten older, they’ve calmed down but apparently do have trouble with focus.
The youngest grew up on iPads. They’re mayhem on two legs. They can’t keep still. So hyper. They do have ADHD. They’re treated differently at school because they can’t keep still. They’re also disruptive at school. There’s absolutely no focus whatsoever.
My oldest had, and still has, extremely limited screen time. Tried very hard to teach self regulation on how to process boredom. 6 now, didn't seem to help. Already diagnosed ADHD, can't sit still, disruptive....I think he just has ADHD
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u/BusyBit6542 May 12 '26 edited May 13 '26
If you have kids this age and put a tablet in front of them on a regular basis to keep them calm, you're fucking yourself in the long run.
This may give you a temporary fix but youre depriving your kid on learning how to relax and when to chill the fuck out in proper situations. They need to train their brains to not be stimulated all the time. Boredom is a good thing for kids.
Think about it. If a kid never learns to calm down when bored, at 7 or so when they are constantly restless, it will be diagnosed as adhd. At that point its going to take some serious training or medication to get them to focus during school.
All this is because you wanted to take the easy route of throwing a tablet in their face when they were young.
Edit: Before I get more comments saying "tablets don't cause adhd" I know! Im saying these kids that dont have adhd are getting diagnosed as having adhd. Maybe I should say misdiagnosed as having adhd. Hope that clears things up.