While research on children’s screen use is growing, most of it has focused on how a child’s behavior and temperament influence how much time they spend on screens.
Yet far less attention has gone to parents’ role in children’s media use.
In 2024, the U.S. surgeon general identified parenting stress as a public health concern.
Researchers, clinicians and policymakers were called to action to better understand parents’ needs, with the goal of supporting them in raising children and maintaining a healthy family.
I like the saying that “it takes a whole village to raise a child”. The problem is our way of life, in nuclear families, with weak social network. We are just no able to do everything, work, raise kids, mantian home. It’s too much for a nuclear family.
The atomization of society feels like it is responsible for so many problems, this one included
In 2024, the U.S. surgeon general identified parenting stress as a public health concern.
Yeah, no shit. We’re raising kids with zero future prospects while our own future keeps getting rugpulled over and over. It’s stressful being a parent as it is, and the dismal outlook isn’t helping.
It doesn’t feel satisfying to judge parents from that lens, why would I take that perspective?
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Selfish idiot people continue having children they cannot care for, sustaining the cycle of abuse.
Thanks, mom and dad. We will spend the rest of our lives cleaning up after your wretched, monstrous asses.
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God these kinds of comments are dumb. Here let me explain why:
If you downvote this you support drowning puppies.
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You had a shitty childhood, but instead of trying to do better for your kids, you gave up, and didn’t have kids at all. Obviously its OK to not want kids, but to me this seems like you are extrapolating your childhood trauma to everyone else. My childhood wasn’t perfect, but it makes me want to strive to do better, not to avoid kids ans shane people who have them.
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Selfish billionaire idiots hoard the wealth so that the general population cannot dedicate the care that they are entitled to give their children.
And dumbasses like my parents focus only on their own satisfaction. They fall in line and abuse their children instead of opposing the systems that keep us all enslaved.
Pre-tech you just popped a “soother” in their mouths and it worked way better than a “screen”. We weren’t connected to all of the world back then but I’m certain there must have been an “anti-soother” faction.
I’m gonna come out with a newsletter called “Duh Quarterly” and collect all these fucking OBVIOUS articles.
So… like ADD in the 90s, then?
edit: Not only from personal experience, that era (nevermind those before it) treated neurodivergence according to the adults’ convenience, not the ND person’s needs. In case you weren’t aware.
I was going to say: so many parents in the 90s let tv raise their kids, too. It’s a time honor tradition to have a square or rectangle keep your kids calm. Acting like this is a new concept entirely is laughable.
