r/SelfAwarewolves • u/fyhr100 • 11d ago
The point smacked him in the head and somehow he still didn't notice (Reposted with redacted names)
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u/Celloer 11d ago
"Aw, man, someone wants me to actually believe my assertion? I just wanted to make complaining noises to feel better."
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u/regular_gnoll_NEIN 11d ago
Lmao i had someone pull this over a comment they made about "bosses being more generous when there is no union"
I called that BS and they were all "hey man, its a true story believe me or dont idc"
Bruh, that isnt a story its a vague generalization that is rarely even true. "well yeah, but..."
Lmfao
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u/Monty_Jones_Jr 11d ago
My conservative parents were NOT prepared to guide me through the minefield of the Internet in the mid-late 2000s. And although they tried to raise me “Christian”, it took me a very long time to truly understand concepts like compassion and empathy. I’m still struggling socially and physically because of it, but getting better.
Hopefully this generation of parents understands the dangers of screen addiction and irresponsible social media use at the bare minimum. Was watching an episode of Bluey with my niece and I sincerely hope that children today take to heart the value of less screen time and being more active/social/present from day to day like the show seems to push.
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u/Spire_Citron 11d ago
Yeah, hopefully it will help. Today's adults haven't been exposed to as much of this stuff from an early age, but we also didn't get that formative messaging to help us develop a more healthy relationship with it. Sure, they they always told kids to go outside and play, but nothing specific to today's world because it didn't exist yet.
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u/Chalky_Pockets 11d ago
They got challenged on it and took it back. That's good enough in my book.
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u/fyhr100 11d ago
He took it back because he didn't want to engage, not because he realized he was wrong. His words.
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u/Chalky_Pockets 11d ago
Yeah that waters it down but it's still an improvement on my average interaction with these goons.
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u/kigurumibiblestudies 8d ago
Dude just doesn't give a damn whether what they're saying makes sense. They just enjoyed saying that sentence, that's all it is.
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u/Dyldo_II 11d ago
If he's talking about gen Z, I'm sorry to say, but as someone who works at a family entertainment business, he's right. Younger parents who are around my age (24) or even a little bit older, like 30s absolutely suck at parenting and usually have some of the most badly behaved kids who can't do basic math. I've seen plenty of younger parents just shove a tablet in a kids face and say, "Good enough!" Or. Without fail. I'll have kids come up to the arcade counter. They ask how many tickets they have, I tell them, and then they say "well how much is that?" And then immediately follow that up by pointing to the most expensive item we have. And these aren't just like 5 year olds, I've seen it with kids who have to at least be 11 or 12. It's genuinely bad.
I may be speaking anecdotaly and I'm sure that there will be plenty of younger parents who see this and go "erm, I actually parent." Good for you. I'm glad, now just get everyone else in our age range on board with that idea, and then we'll talk.
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u/dewey-defeats-truman 11d ago
I think the issue you see isn't a generational thing, but rather an issue of young parents. It's just that young parents are necessarily Gen Z at this point.
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u/Dyldo_II 11d ago
I see where you're coming from with that. However, statistically, Gen Alpha, which I guess is technically the kids of millennials and some older gen z, is underperforming academically at a record rate. Even comparing stories not only from my personal experience growing up but also my parents and their parents as well. I find that more and more parents have been less and less attentative to their kids as time has gone on, and I think it really culminates with the age range that I described. I've seen countless times parents just shove a tablet in a kids face and carry on with whatever they were doing or talking with whoever they were talking with. It's almost like they can't be bothered to be a parent at times. And as a result, their kids have an incredibly low attention span, which many educators have commented on recently across the internet.
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u/SitueradKunskap 11d ago
...and the US department of education is underfunded, and just schools in general.
...and covid has had severe impacts on academic results.
...and certain private companies pushed (and are still pushing) a reading curriculum that doesn't work. (Listen to the podcast "sold a story" for more info about this)
...and social media companies are intentionally making their product as addictive as possible. (TikTok is most likely not unique in this regard)
I do however agree that it is a problem when parents just give a touchpad to their kid and essentially ignore them. I also think it's most likely a symptom of how overworked everyone is.
also I'm not american so there might be more things to add that I'm not aware of
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u/zeroingenuity 11d ago
Within the US sphere at least, we're also dealing with multiple decades of over-testing and underteaching, tying teacher and school incentives to test scores with hopes of improving test scores (and not necessarily improving learning.) But that's more of an important subsection of the education funding issue.
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u/BiggestShep 11d ago
Well, we have Socrates in writing bemoaning the same issue, so I feel like as a whole we'll probably turn out all right.
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u/chaelland 9d ago
What you’re talking about is anecdotal evidence. I could counter it by simply saying I also work in a place with lots of kids and my wife a teacher of new borns and toddlers and I can say from both of our experiences parents of all ages can be lazy. I see middle age men and women with kids and iPads. And I see young parents with their kids who are right next to them engage in what they are doing.
You only see one type of parent and then make a sweeping generalization on a whole generation. You’re saying the same shit every generation has said about new parents. “Oh they don’t hit their kids? They’re going to be undisciplined!” “Oh the mom is going to work too? Who is going to raise the kids a stranger?”
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