In the UK, 98% of two-year-olds watch screens on a typical day, on average for more than two hours – and almost 40% of three- to five-year-olds use social media. Could this lead to alarming outcomes?
  • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    Back in the day, it was considered good parenting to rub alcohol on your baby’s gums when they were teething.

  • Da Oeuf@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    The impact on kids is bigger but as adults we are also not immune. I suspect that a significant number of parents are putting their kids in front of a screen so they can use a screen themselves.

    I think that as we indulge more and more in high dopamine-stimumating things like screens, processed foods and drugs of various kinds, and as those things get more and more potent, it gets harder and harder to find the motivation and competence to maintain what they replace, like good relationships and community. This a compounding and self-reinforcing problem because the worse life gets, the more attractive these things become as an escape, and the more you escape the more the rest of your life gets worse.

    Its the classic downward spiral of addiction. On a massive scale.