As I learned on his birthday, my son had decided three things about smartphones. 1. They’re infantilizing, a set of digital apron strings meant to attach you to your mother. (He was onto something there.) 2. They compromise a boy’s resourcefulness because kids come to rely on the GPS instead of learning Scout skills. 3. They make people trivial. This final observation bugs me the most, because he still expresses it whenever he sees me jabbing at my own device: “Texty texty! Emoji emoji!” And when I play my word games, he shouts, “GAMER!” That hurts. In short, my son says, he doesn’t want a phone because he wants to be free.
She doesn’t like her picture taken and posted to Instagram. When I’ve done it, I say it’s because I’m just proud of them and want to show them off. They both say that they never signed a waiver to let their likenesses be used for my promotional purposes.
I have no words. How these kids managed to sprout from the genes of this fucking moron, I do not know. Must have had a smart dad/sperm donor, to say the least.
Kids are naturally contrarian to their parents, especially at that age. Especially the opposite gender kid/parent. It takes considerable amounts of time doting and willful damaging their mind to create the codepenent, mini-clone version you sometimes see.
So this is probably more common than you'd think, it just doesn't happen to journalists who expose it for our amusement.
Interesting how she doesn't even consider the idea that sick fucks like the ones Chris Hansen and Alex Rosen bust could possibly try to prey on those poor kids thanks to her publicizing every little part of their lives.
Or that something online they find embarrassing may either cost them networking opportunities or make them the target of bullying from any peers who may see it.
I hate when some parents shut down very valid concerns like those and make it all about their ego trips.
I have no words. How these kids managed to sprout from the genes of this fucking moron, I do not know. Must have had a smart dad/sperm donor, to say the least.
No wonder he didn't stick around.
Kids are naturally contrarian to their parents, especially at that age. Especially the opposite gender kid/parent. It takes considerable amounts of time doting and willful damaging their mind to create the codepenent, mini-clone version you sometimes see.
So this is probably more common than you'd think, it just doesn't happen to journalists who expose it for our amusement.
Regression to the mean can be both a blessing or a curse.
Interesting how she doesn't even consider the idea that sick fucks like the ones Chris Hansen and Alex Rosen bust could possibly try to prey on those poor kids thanks to her publicizing every little part of their lives.
Or that something online they find embarrassing may either cost them networking opportunities or make them the target of bullying from any peers who may see it.
I hate when some parents shut down very valid concerns like those and make it all about their ego trips.
no kids at that age would say that. this woman either made this up or this is a poorly-communicated joke.
I suspect this entire article is meant to be satire and everybody here took the bait.