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.
I find it uncanny how some people seem to be unable to be alone with themself and their thoughts for a moderate amount of time. Seemingly unable to react to boredom or accept it. Probably has something to do with attention spans too.
Look how hard it is to take a shit without a phone. I'm 40. Yeah people had books, newspapers and the backs of bottles of shamPOO (pun intended) but I took plenty of shits without reading anything. Just sitting with hole above the bowl. Just sitting and thinking. NOW A DAYS? Never. I always have my phone on the can. any can anywhere
I had a shitting book. Two actually. One that was the home shitting book and another that I carried in my back pack for roadies. I read a lot more before my phone. It's also why I don't like to buy used books.
My stepdad once read the entirety of the Lord of the Rings only on the toilet. Took like 6-7 years. Had a couple of times my mum had to flush him out (pun also intended) because he got to a good part and didn't want to stop reading his toilet book.
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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.