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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am well aware of the exceptions:

We only had a few minutes to talk and needed out toddler to be quiet.
Our toddler has XYZ diagnosis.
And on and on.

But the research is there and the pendulum is swinging the other way. There are few legitimate reasons to prop up a screen in front of your 13 month old at cava while you lunch with your partner. It’s 20 minutes tops.

Knock it off, people.
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For all you know the woman is with that child all day long and this is her chance to have a break and enjoy an adult conversation. The screen is then a short-lived treat for the child? 20 minutes. Not only are you ridiculously judgmental but you have a screw loose to post this kind of screed.[/quote]

Is this a Gen Z parenting thing? It is literally your job as the child's parent to keep an eye on them all day long, even while having an adult conversation. Somehow our parents managed this and their parents this, but a 30 year old can't. GROW UP.[/quote]

Lol no Boomer parents+ very much did not keep an eye on their kids all day long. That’s some revisionist thinking. Kids weren’t at the fast food place because mom probably left them at home with their gaggle of older siblings. Or they took them to an all night arcade so they could gamble in a casino. And the little girl who died was not the only kid left unattended back then … and “back then” was the mid-90s, meaning it was solid Millennials being left alone. https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/7-year-old-girls-murder-at-nevada-casino-still-haunts-20-years-later/amp/[/quote]

I was a child in the late 80s/early 90s and my parents and their friends absolutely took us out to eat. The difference between then and now is that instead of handing children phones, they handed us coloring pages and crayons or we brought a book with us or if we were with friends, we played cards. My kids do the same now - the last time we met up with some friends at a brewery, both sets of kids brought along some board games.[/quote]

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