"Sister Kathaliynnry, you made a simple error, you only reset the Mirror of Many Pixels, not the Tower of Processing. My Millennial Master Father Steve taught me such, may the Omnissiah watch over his soul."

"I pray for the birth of the Star Millennial to usher in the new golden age of tech!"

Edit: I was kinda hoping the response to this post would more be people joking about my Warhammer reference, but instead y'all be posting serious analysis here. Real buzzkill.

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[–] LittleFellaNamedBoof@hexbear.net 22 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I think something that has largely been forgotten in the modern day but is 100% true is that one of the biggest parts of being a good parent is not giving your kids all the things they want. It's like eating vegetables instead of candy. You can have a little candy if you want sure, but you need to be mostly eating healthy. Even if you hate it. Kids are blank slates. You as the parent are not just telling them what to do you are literally engraining habits in them that will follow them into adulthood. If you teach them good habits and they grow into healthy adults they might not even realize what a favor you did for them, but their lives will certainly be better for it.

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago

That's what I'm thinking. They can have a computer they can talk to their friends on, but it won't be an ipad. I might even book them into typing and excel courses when they're older. They'll hate it, but you never actually get taught to do any of the basic things you do in the workplace. Like how every business uses excel but it's never formally taught anywhere. As far as I'm concerned all highschool mathematics should be done in spreadsheets instead of on scientific calculators.

[–] IvarK@hexbear.net 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I agree with you somewhat, but i gotta say most of my peers who grew up pre smartphones/tablets being ubiquitous (late 2000s) with parents that were strict around screen time etc. “for their own good” didn’t really end up being thankful for the great habits that reinforced. Most just became resentful that they were excluded from partaking in their favorite activities with their friends (i.e. hanging out with irl friends in runescape or whatever you did in 2009)

[–] LittleFellaNamedBoof@hexbear.net 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Where do you disagree? Was this thing I said not directly related to the concern you mentioned?

If you teach them good habits and they grow into healthy adults they might not even realize what a favor you did for them, but their lives will certainly be better for it.

[–] IvarK@hexbear.net 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I’m sorry if you felt that I misunderstood your point. It was not my intention to do a bad-faith reading, my apologies if I inadvertently did.

I think I was more trying to express my gut reaction to what I perceived as a similar line of reasoning to what I grew up hearing from parents (mine were cool but others around me) of “you can play video games for an hour on weekends as a treat but otherwise you have to be outside and play sports whether you want to or not”. These types of arguments never went over well with any of my friends, and usually just resulted in resentment and them finding ways to sneak away and be on the computer at my house or whatever.

I hope that clarifies my feelings I was trying to express!

[–] Arahnya@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Yeah; some parents have a physically / emotionally corporal approach to this, and it has detrimental effects.