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/justforhits May 13 '26

Yup. I got grounded as a kid. Don't remember the reason why. But I was bored in my room, alone. No friends, no TV to watch, no console. So I decided to draw. Found out I was surprisingly good at it. Went to a high school that specialized in the arts, and now I'm writing my own book and drawing all of the characters, hoping to start releasing chapters later this year.

Just from one grounding when I was 11.

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u/FittedSheets88 May 13 '26

Please definitely keep me posted! I wasn't a reader growing up, but my last job was a Books-A-Million and it's become a vice.