Is this really how Babies and Toddlers and Children are being brought up nowadays?

Wifey and I were on a bus yesterday, and sitting near the front I could here all of these little squeaky noises coming from somewhere.
I looked in front of me, peering around a Mother who had a baby with a dummy in it's mouth while sitting in a pram.
The baby was holding a mobile phone either just in front of it's face, or slightly lower down as in picture.
The sprog was prodding away like a good un using fingers and thumbs while obviously playing some sort of game.

This amused me quite a lot as I watched this child just like that for over half an hour of our journey.
The child said not a word for the whole journey.
And Mother didn't say a word to the child either.
As we were getting off the bus, I commented to the Mother that baby was obviously happy doing that, but he didn't really look very happy.
Mother said:
'Oh! yes.
I always give him that phone on journeys as it keeps him quiet'!

I actually thought the whole thing rather sad.
I mean.
Is this really the way Children are being brought up nowadays?
Always tapping on iPhones and IOPads and whatever oblivious of everything else around them?

Even adults nowadays are the same.
All walking around like Zombies oblivious to all and sundry and possible danger around them.
I mean.

Do many people, particularly Children ever talk and interact much nowadays if most of the day is spent like this?
Both at home or out and about?

 

Is it any worse than someone taking a photograph of a baby without permission and posting it on a social forum again no doubt without the Mothers permission !

 

OP is just jealous because the kid in the pic has someone to change his diaper.

 

tablet cost 100$ not really an expensive item.. parents probably stuck us in a high chair and put on Mr Rogers.. No difference really today with modern hold in your hand tv-set.

 

I dont really agree with it myself, I've never used electronic devices to quiet my son in restaurants or anywhere else in public. I want him to learn to behave himself and interact with the adults around him, rather than zone into a phone or tablet.

 

I do believe you are saying exactly what I believe as well Meliai.
Can children really learn how to communicate properly out here in the real world, instead of the world of little screens for most of the time?
I wonder how often that Mother actually TALKS to that child in any learning and proper way.

By the way.
I shall just ignore stupid and insulting comments by people who know shite all about either the law.
Or anything else if it comes to that.

Cheers.



Cheers.

 

For several years the trend in NYC was for people to shout "Jump" in chorus anytime someone threatened to commit suicide. That way they can get more exciting photographs. Something to share with their grand kids, or sell to the tabloids. The idea they are intimidated by silly things like morality and the law is absurd. When dozens of men raped women in broad daylight in front of the news cameras, the camera men were told not to do anything, just keep filming or they'd be fired.

The KKK only enforces the laws they want and attempting to shame them is all but futile. If you want civil discourse, you have to have serious money. The Japanese and white US and EU populations are crashing, and we had a guy walk right off a cliff playing with his cellphone. Goodridance. Encourage them to go for the money, cheap thrills, etc. and they will provide their own solution to their stupidity. Its the only way to bring down the cost of freedom of speech. The cops literally had to pull these guys off the women one at a time, because without any ethics or morality, other than paying them lipservice, they have zero impulse control and might as well be animals.

The poetry I write is aimed at encouraging their children to reject everything their parents stand for, and get a real life.

 

Perhaps to read the child a book maybe a pacifier or peek-a-boo real things we all remember. looking at a screen should be something seldom and earned like to see a movie once in a while or call a friend down the street on a landline to hand our and play at the park

 

This seems relevant

 

That baby in the photograph could be next kid to walk off a cliff playing with his cellphone. If you say it is irrelevant, I suggest buying a new cellphone. Already you can buy AR applications that allow your glasses to replace homeless people with potted plants or whatever, so you never have to look at them. You can filter out all the nastiness you want and, soon, the AI will do it for you better than any human being could.

 

I wouldn't say that they are being "raised" that way--but I would say that sometimes parents don't feel like dealing with a loud, agitated, or fussy toddler on long journeys. It's difficult to judge this parent based on a photograph, especially since, as you said, adults do the same thing.

When I was a kid, my parents used to let me bring a book or a game on a longer journey, or during a period where I would need to remain quiet for a duration that was difficult at my age--would you judge that in the same way?

 

I'm not a parent so I voted don't know

 

The average ADULT American watches over 35 hours of television alone a week. Perhaps if they spent exactly half their time watching TV you might think differently. They are rapidly losing touch with all reality, and encouraging the government and corporations they call evil to lie to them for their own protection.

 

Perhaps. I don't watch television, so it's hard for me to say. I do, however, think it's very very easy to judge a parent, but very very difficult to be a parent.

 

Agreed, and I'm not blaming the parents. The US became the first country to raise their literacy level to 95%, from only 5%, less than a century and a half ago. Basically, we've all just crawled out of the dark ages and fumbling about as best we can, but the problem is what worked in small communities largely composed of extended families farming the land, is now threatening the entire planet. Academics have been counterproductive if anything, because they have enforced the status quo. These kids need to be taught to share their words and play nice, even if we have to do it in VR.

The alternative, is to watch the Japanese and White populations practically vanish off the face of the earth, and everyone else to follow in their footsteps. We'll be lucky if only two billion people die before they figure out to share their words and play nice.

 

And if he didn't have the phone, he'd just sit there and cry the whole time, annoying everyone around him. What do you want her to do, set him on her lap and read him stories, as if that could keep him interested? I think it's commendable that a baby that small can even use a phone. I can barely use mine.

I just think we should trust a mother's instincts when it comes to her child. There's no reason to assume the worst. It's important for the mother's well-being, as well, that the child isn't making a racket when they're traveling. And if the mother is in a calm state of mind, then she'll raise her child properly. On the contrary, if the mother is constantly stressed out, she'll grow to resent the child. I say it's all good.

On a larger level, it isn't "all good," of course. Personally, I'd prefer it if we lived like woodland elves. I want to just pick berries and be considered a contributor. I could really give fuck all about science and so-called "progress." The whole thing is going to culminate in disaster, likely as not. There will be an earthquake in the wrong place at the wrong time, a nuclear reactor will sink into the Earth, and all of the world's water will be poisoned. Yes, I'd prefer just riding horses. I know it's possible to live to a ripe old age this way, as well. Because look at the Native Americans. There's always old natives in the movies. Intelligence be damned. There are other forms of knowledge besides scientific knowledge.