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Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing (futurism.com)
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Supervision? All the time? Found the guy without kids.

Sure sure, you make a point. But kids are 24 god damn 7 and occasionally I need to do things like chores and cooking. They get tablets so I can survive. I did remove YouTube, but their school didn't.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Weird how I managed to be a kid without tablets and my parents survived.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Weird how people didn't need two or more full time jobs to afford a family back then too.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    My parents both worked

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And look how that turned out.

    If you want to sing wheels on the bus with your kids for that five hour car ride, more power to you. You're a stronger mind than I. My kids are getting tablets.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think it worked perfectly. I have the perfect combination of self loathing and confidence to be a high earning professional who also believes that humans are wicked and should pursue our own extinction, so as to protect our non existent children from the inevitability of human suffering. Plus, my executive functioning is barely holding on even without early age screen time.

    Also it leaves me lots of time to care for them as they age. Win win.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    my executive functioning is barely holding on even without early age screen time.

    I had a screen since I was 6 in the 80s. An apple 2e. It turns out that screens are great for calming autistic ADHD folks. It's why many of us end up in IT. But I'm guessing it's why my exec function isn't horrible. Imagine living screen free all day??

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    When I have kids I will allow them to go on the Internet, but I will teach them about where to find good content and stuff like that.

    They will ultimately have to learn how to do this anyway, so its better to teach them early.

    And I dont want to completely block their internet access because their classmates will have it too and it sucks to be the only one who doesnt, you just dont fit in quite as well and arent able to talk about stuff from the internet if you dont know anything about it. (I am speaking from experience)

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    It's funny yeah everyone knows exactly how to raise kids until they have their own.

    My parents were obsessive never letting us watch anything violent, the only way you'd tell the difference between me and my buddy that watched them all is I do a little worse than most at pop culture pub quiz rounds. I really don't think humans are as fragile as some people assume, playing on a tablet isn't going to melt anyone's brain.

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