my issue with “ipad kids” discourse is not that i don’t think that giving your 11 month year old an ipad and than leaving them alone for 11 hours ISN"T possibly unhealthy, even considering the fact that while previous forms of entertainment like books, radio, or tv were also criticized for “rotting children’s brains” they’re at least like. a bare minimum of quality in terms of what’s being consumed. a 6 year old watching nothing but nickelodeon or cartoon network is still probably getting more out of it than a 6 year watching ai generated elsa spiderman slime videos. so like yeah spend more time with your kids or at least show them like. pbs shows instead of youtube kids.
my actual issue with the discourse is how it’s framed through this really obnoxious “generational war lense” specially how like self proclaimed “gen z” zoomers are talking about millennials in the exact same way boomers were talking about “iphone’s turning millennials into brain dead zombies” 10 years ago that everyone thought was lame and outdated until 20 year old tiktok influencers started saying it so it’s woke or and based? like i’m not even saying zoomers are wrong, but are we also gonna agree that boomers were right all along, or was the only thing people took away from dumbass generational divides was “old people are lame and young people are inherently correct and progressive” and not “generations were made up by marketers to sell us shit and arent’ a good way of measuring progressiveness or anything really”