Found this gem on Facebook, opinions?

ashaw512

I realized my comment got cut. To clarify, my SIL let's her 7 yr old sit and play his mature video games or his tablet all day long and cartoons. When she asks him to clean or go outside he's a crybaby, "sensitive" as their family calls it [-( and throws a fit. While his sister at 12 wears clothes that show her belly, for her bday DH and I bought her a crop top with a bandeau bra under it. I didn't realize it was a crop top or that it was that short until she tried it on, and thought surely her mother with make her wear an undershirt. No, she wears what she wants even if she looks like a hooker, she sits on her smart phone, and Facebook all day long. She doesn't answer when spoken to but she's taught to use her manners. Major eye roll. This is not how kids should act. It disgusts me.

wrightpalomo

Thanks for the well wishes, ladies!

ConversationFear

Totally agree with it. DH and I were both raised like this and we intend to do the same with our son. Wish more parents took this approach. Maybe the future won't be filled with as many spoiled crybaby brats whose house of cards crashes every time they don't get their way or someone hurts their little feelings.

softsoprano

In terms of electronics, I'm more in the regulating use boat.  DH and I both enjoy video games, we both think they do benefit kids with hand-eye coordination (in addition to many other activities), and they can be educational (problem solving skills) as well as entertaining.  BUT we will definitely limit the amount of time spent on a game system/watching TV.  Kids need to develop a freaking imagination too!  Oh, and our kids will be older before they have their own TV and can just hide in their room doing god knows what (DH's nieces and nephew).  And they'll get phones when they're old enough to be going somewhere without a trusted adult.  Sorry, ranting...

deviousmuse

The only thing I don't like about the article is the link-baiting title it uses. Make your content stand on its own without the lazy writer crutch of "controversial" titles.

trebekastan

softsoprano said:

In terms of electronics, I'm more in the regulating use boat.  DH and I both enjoy video games, we both think they do benefit kids with hand-eye coordination (in addition to many other activities), and they can be educational (problem solving skills) as well as entertaining.  BUT we will definitely limit the amount of time spent on a game system/watching TV.  Kids need to develop a freaking imagination too!  Oh, and our kids will be older before they have their own TV and can just hide in their room doing god knows what (DH's nieces and nephew).  And they'll get phones when they're old enough to be going somewhere without a trusted adult.  Sorry, ranting...

It is actually a known fact among linguists, that there is no such thing as an educational video game. There is decades worth of research on it and they all conclude that electronics cannot teach children anything. That only comes from human interaction. So all of those Baby Einstein videos and leapster pad things do absolutely nothing to teach. They are the world's best marketing strategy. At the very best, they can be used as a reinforcement of concepts, but even then all the research tells us that human interaction far supersedes anything that technology can give.