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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of speech problems, learned helpness and tantrums with this years group. Also hearing the word throughs them into a fit.  Lots of issues w/super short attention spans.[/quote]

I’m an FCPS SLP and every entering kindergarten class gets worse in terms of language developmental and attention. It’s not COVID; it’s the screen-based childhood. The children were constantly on screens and their parents were too. All kinds of missing parent/child interactions has resulted in children with language delays and the inability to sustain attention on tasks at school. Add in overly permissive millennial parenting (“gentle parenting”) and we now have classrooms fill of children who are not quite ready. They have never been given a consequence by their parents and there is no follow through at home with behavior. I agree with the learned helplessness for sure. There are also children who immediately say “I’m bored” as soon as they are made to sit at a table and learn something new. They are used to the constant entertainment and endless swipe and scroll.

Parents of children under 5: put away your screens.[/quote]

It so bad now in my kindergarten class. It’s not just screens. It the which one minute reeks that are ruining their attention span. They rush through everything just to get it done and can’t just sit and wait for a few minutes. Some struggle with making eye contact and asking and answering simple questions. Monday mornings are awful. They look strung out. They are exhausted and they tell me they were in their tablets in the middle of the night. Some parents admit that they let them take them to bed. This year was exhausting. [/quote]

I'm not believing that kindergartners are taking their tablets to bed with them and using them in the middle of the night. So your whole post lost its credibility.[/quote]

So because you don’t allow your kids to do this and other people you know don’t allow their kids to do this, nobody must allow this? Step out of your DCUM bubble and visit some high poverty schools. There are many in my district (Baltimore City). Parents bring tablets to parent teacher conferences for the child and when you ask the parents about the child’s fatigue in school (falling asleep in the morning), their irritability, their constant talking about inappropriate stuff online, many parents admit that they just let the kids take the phone or tablet to bed with them because they have a meltdown when they try to take it away. Nearly every kid has their own phone or tablet by Christmas. They draw and write that they got their own and they don’t need to share with a younger sibling anymore. The behaviors make sense after talking to the parents. Sometimes they ask me for advice. I tell them my kid didn’t get his own device until he was in 8th grade. He’s probably just as addicted as anyone else but at a least he grew up doing normal kid stuff.

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