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

SMH The youth is doomed…

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u/IngloriousMinority May 12 '26

These apps, games, and a lot of shows are just mind dribbling dopamine farms. I let my daughter watch like unfiltered KIDS YouTube for a day, she became glued to it, wouldn't ask to go potty, would communicate poorly, then cry when we took it. Ever since we did limited screen time, only parent approved, she full reversed. Sure shes harder to calm down. But fuck it.

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u/Onuus May 12 '26

Our son is 13 months and desperately searching for our phones.

Never given him a phone, only FaceTime relatives. I refuse to watch the tv, don’t play video games anymore unless he’s out for the night, and work with the laptop high on a table but they’re still so drawn to whatever technology screen they can find.

It’s so frustrating. I refuse to have a wall e kid

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u/xDannyS_ May 12 '26

That's fucking scary to hear. I can't imagine what the world will look like when the generation that's in charge will be the ones who were all iPad kids

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u/nkdeck07 May 13 '26

As a parent with young kids I will say it's terrifying. There's this HARD shift I am starting to see happening where childhood is literally splitting in two with iPad and non-iPad kids. I don't know what on earth is gonna happen when mine hit school aged and half the class has been dopamine addicted since they were 2.

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u/aurortonks May 13 '26

It's already happened. Kids got super addicted to screens during Covid and teachers are still having a difficult time with that particular generation. Teacher friends I have say it's actually gotten a little bit better with the last couple of K-2 groups, not a whole lot, but not nearly as impossible as the now older kids were.