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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Socially/behaviorally, I think the issues are a result of the screen generation of parenting. Some kids are totally and completely screen addicted at shockingly young ages. Parents can't run into Target for 15 minutes without handing the kid a phone. The amount of kids using their computers at inappropriate school times is high. Defiance/ignoring of teachers is also high.

I work in an ES across multiple grades. [/quote]

It’s sad to see babies or toddlers in a stroller out and about and they are watching a TV program.  This has become so common.  Then you see the ones with no screen and they are engaged with their surroundings, smiling at people, looking around.  I just don’t get it. [/quote]

I agree. And can’t go to a restaurant without a screen. My kids are 13 and 16 and no one did this when they were little even though we had the ability with our phones (esp with 13 yo). But 5 years after they were toddlers it was everywhere.

These kids are messed up from it - and then Covid screen deluge basically put the nail in the coffin bc at least before that, screens were minimally used in grade school so that was a brake to it all. No more.

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Little kids had phones and iPads before Covid. Big kids being glued to their phones is also not a new phenomenon. We have a no screens during meals rule. We have friends whose kids carry their iPads around everywhere. The parents plop the iPad at the table so the kid can concentrate to eat. I don’t think this has anything to do with Covid and everything to do with their parenting style.[/quote]

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