"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 1 points 5 hours ago

Well that kind of comes down to like is the parent just denying them something or are they saying, "Don't do this thing, do this instead" Like for example I wouldn't want my kids spending a lot of time online. I'd let them do stuff online in moderation, I do it myself, but like the always online and connected norm of the day is very unhealthy imo. But I'd also so things like encourage them to sign up for martial arts classes and take them there or take them to do some other random in person thing they want to do with their friends. And when at home and the computers are all turned off I'd have other things for them to do too. I guess maybe I'm getting a bit old but I didn't even have a computer until I was 12 or so and I found ways to entertain myself just fine without an iPad. Books, toys, board games, pets to play with, a swing in the back yard, basketball hoop in the driveway, etc.

The idea that you are either online as much as you want or bored is a false dichotomy imo. The internet is imo extremely unhealthy to be on all the time. In the time between my last reply to you and now I was in my backyard digging up onions and went to the grocery store. Moderation is everything, but it is designed to be addictive. So you need to enforce strict limits with children to prevent them falling victim to addictive algorithms. That's not building character through pain. It's protecting your children.