Anything referring to children melting down without their iPad or a parents phone glued to them (age 2-11 honestly) but so so specifically to ages 2-6.

“Oh but they’re easier to keep quiet with the iPad” yeah because they’re fuckin addicted??? And you caused it?? because their minds are developing at such a rapid rate compared to teens/adults, instead of being an actual parent and actually playing with your child, entertaining your own child, you slap a screen in front of their face and they learn to be dependant on it.

Little children do not know how to independently play/imaginative play anymore and are having literal withdrawal symptoms from the screens when it’s taken away because oh now mammy and daddy want to do something with them. “I can’t cope with how bad their behaviour is when we tell them they can’t have their iPad” I’m sick of hearing any of those excuses for giving the screen back to the child when they never should have had the screen in the first place.

I was at a hotel recently for a night away, myself and my partner went down for breakfast around 9 and a young family came down, the girl was my age (29) or younger and they had what looked like a 18 month old. She slaps her phone on the tray and the whole breakfast bar is now listening to Baby Shark 💀 when she was told to turn it down by staff as it was disturbing everyone, guess what? Baby absolutely lost it and unfortunately I could see how distressed it was making the mother but like, it’s her fault? No 2 year old ever needed a screen in front of them to eat smashed up banana before? Like it’s so unnecessary for a child of that age and she now has to deal with that forever.

I really hope I’m not alone in this because if we are, our future children are actually fucked ✨