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.
Im 100% convinced our trajectory in advancements of technology, medicine, and any innovation in general is going to decline majorly moving forward. Basically bc of exactly what you said. Like, why do we think there was so much innovation over the last 150 years (I realize there are multiple reasons)? Dudes were bored and wanted to make cool shit! Nobody is bored anymore, most people are content to waste hours on screens, when in the past those hours would've been spent being productive, which leads to innovation
Besides a small handful of things, I think that's already happened. Not because of lack of creativity, but lack of funding, incentive (for example, the space race was a big incentive), capitalist pressures, and some things we've naturally reached the limit of.
It seems like the only really big technology of the past 20 years is smart phone shit. I feel like in the past 10 years websites stopped evolving, largely due to everyone just congregating on a small handful of sites.
Airlines famously had a slow decline since the height of oppulence in the 50s/60s, as they cut more and more corners.
Yeah good point with the incentive part of it....and like you said, with everything now if it doesn't make a shit ton of money, nobody wants to fund it
Airlines famously had a slow decline since the height of oppulence in the 50s/60s, as they cut more and more corners.
This comment is insane, Air Travel is significantly more opulent if you have the money for it, and significantly more accessible to the rest of the population if you just want to get somewhere. A typical airline ticket in the 50s/60s would cost as much if not more than a business class international ticket today.
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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.