• paddirn@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, the response usually seems to be to take a step back and make their childhood more like “our own” (whichever prev gen you’re from), as if our childhood was better than theirs. What I feel like we should be doing is paying attention to what they’re getting into and guide them through what they’re seeing. They need to have a healthy mix of socialization and exposure to technology to prep them for the future. Unless we have a huge, society-ending event that strips electricity & tech away from us and plunges us into a new dark age, they’ll need to learn to navigate tech to have any kind of advantage or just keep up with their peers.

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      8 months ago

      Dear lord, read the article for once. There’s a mental health epidemic going on among teenagers and an all time high in children’s anxiety. It has nothing to do with “have our same childhood” crap.

      You lot can’t be trusted to actually pay attention to what kids are doing on their phones. And to the comment above yours, this is the first generation raised entirely on phones and they are the worst with technology, they’re basically tech illiterate. They can be glued to a device all day but that doesn’t mean they know how it works or how to use it effectively.

      Honestly the worse offender is social media. Most adults are addicted and mentally distraught by the likes of Facebook, tiktok, Instagram, et al. Now imagine a child who is still in development, with far less cognitive recourses and maturity being exposed to that.

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        Social media isn’t like reading a book, it’s like a magazine. It’s mainly meant for quick consumption, and rarely teaches anything. Imagine a kid who only read magazines and never books. That’s one stunted kid.

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      8 months ago

      That’s not what is happening at all. Actual professionals in child development are telling you that you are poisoning your child’s brain via executive functioning rot. Kids should learn how to deal with being bored and passive.

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          No, they didn’t. When comic books came into popularity there wasn’t many child development professionals. Psychology is a very young science. The ones complaining about comics were conservative pundits and religious demagogues, not professional psychologist with evidence and science backing up their claims. Don’t equate both. If you’re ignorant of history just shut up and don’t make misinformation up for the sake of arguing.

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              Dear lord, you bring Wertham into this. The guy who is not taken seriously by any psychologists because he is a raging homophobe? His argument was nothing like this. Please, seriously, learn how to read. His argument was that comics caused juvenile delinquency. He argued that Wonder Woman made girls Lesbians FFS. There’s not a single mention of mental health in his book and he didn’t have a single shred of evidence. Unlike now when we do have tons of evidence of social media causing teenagers and kids to self-harm and the spike in anxiety and depression. So, NO, it wasn’t the same argument.

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                At the time he was making those claims he was very well respected. It was only around 2012 that his work was discredited.

                Moral panic generally doesn’t look like moral panic at the time it’s happening.

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                  Still, his argument was distinctly different from the one being made today. Again, for the illiterate on the other side. Wertham argued that comic made kids delinquents and homosexuals. Today, we have basis to believe that smartphone addiction and social media use might be making kids more anxious and depressed. Entirely not “the same thing”.

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                    8 months ago

                    It sure sounds like the same thing except you are just substituting “anxious and depressed” in place of “delinquent and homosexual”.