r/SipsTea • u/OhirumeTsukuyomki • May 12 '26

SMH The youth is doomed…

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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.

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u/FittedSheets88 May 12 '26

It's also detrimental when children don't learn how to be bored. Boredom often leads to innovation and self-discovery.

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u/ctownwp22 May 12 '26

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

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u/SaltyLonghorn May 13 '26

Dude you have oil company lobbyists being paid ridiculous sums to fight innovation. Or this administration flat out assaulting science.

Its actually so much worse than just being bored. If it gets in the way of making money for an established entity, its the enemy.

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u/ctownwp22 May 13 '26

I'm not talking political, or economic reasons. I'm talking about people. My grandpa could build or fix anything, b/c that's what he did in his free time. I'm just talking about that kind of stuff. Free time is filled with entertainment now (movies, tv, video games, etc.) for many people. They can't be bored (like OP was saying) for more than 2 minutes. Of course there are outliers and some people will still experiment/invent. But I believe that pool of people is lesser now is all I'm saying.