| ▲ | rightbyte 3 days ago |
| Ye and Zuckerberg plugs the laptop mic with a dud cable. I guess most parents try to limit screen time. But some have a hard time doing it since it is a great babysitter. I try to do a total blockade of YT at home for kids. Watching other kids be hypnothized by the feed years ago was enough. The algorithm seems to converge to unboxing videos and surreal spam. |
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| ▲ | concinds 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| > But some have a hard time doing it since it is a great babysitter. We should be clearer on what it means. An iPad will satisfy their need for stimulation but not their developmental emotional and social needs, nor their fine motor skills and executive functioning skills (and it likely harms the latter two, unlike old-school toys). Boredom and non-excessive stimulation levels are essential to letting the child’s inner world develop. Giving young kids iPads so they’ll be quiet is a normalized form of neglect. |
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| ▲ | politelemon 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | It's worse, iPads don't satisfy the simulation but instead create a harmful dependency on it. I'll go as far to say that giving young kids iPads is a form of abuse that doesn't get called out. | | |
| ▲ | concinds 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Significant emotional neglect will put you in the 1st or 2nd decile of emotional health. It can make you a total train wreck. I don’t think every bad thing needs to be abuse. | |
| ▲ | seanmcdirmid 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | iPads are so easy to lockdown though, Apple did a good job on their parental controls. Roblox is the main brain stealer these days with a horrible social component, we only give our kid an hour a week now and even Thats probably too much. |
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| ▲ | rightbyte 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > We should be clearer on what it means. In this occurrence I mean "distract the kids with something such that they don't hurt them self, fight or destroy stuff so the parent can do X" such as doing the disches or resting. Not like, great at raising the kids in some moral sense. In which YT etc is terrible. I cheat on fancy restaurants and might hand the kids some screen (not YT) to give us a chance to finnish the meal. Stuff like that, but overused. | | |
| ▲ | concinds 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Harm is a spectrum, but being able to sit still, and not harm yourself and destroy things, is a skill kids need to learn and using an iPad for that can stunt their growth. | | |
| ▲ | rightbyte 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Sure I agree. I am trying to understand parents that capitulate. I think it mainly is a stamina and mental energy issue. Like those parents that give kids too much kandy too handle outbursts short term or something. |
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| ▲ | seneca 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Giving young kids iPads so they’ll be quiet is a normalized form of neglect. I'd say it's closer to outright abuse. One of the better things you can do is a parent is seek out a community where this sort of thing is frowned upon. It's much harder to control when those around you think it's ok. I wish that were easier for people to find. |
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| ▲ | colechristensen 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A lot of parents also drug their kids A LOT to get them to behave the way they want, sleep the way they want. "Kids melatonin", Benadryl, essential oils (plenty of which DO have some drug effect though not often what is claimed) An iPad addiction is arguably better than being sedated so you don't bother your parents. |
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| ▲ | leosanchez 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Ye and Zuckerberg plugs the laptop mic with a dud cable. Are you talking about Kanye West ? also can you expand what this means? "plugs the laptop mic with a dud cable" |
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| ▲ | myko 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | What they're saying is these folks don't trust the privacy of their hardware, they use a dud cable to block the microphone from listening. I think what they're getting at is people close to the situation (not sure why Ye is in the privacy discussion, but Zuck certainly is) don't trust the controls in place. | | |
| ▲ | rightbyte 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Appearantly there is a mixup risk using "ye" between "Kayne West" and "yeah" I wasn't aware of. | | |
| ▲ | myko 3 days ago | parent [-] | | ah, yeah Kanye goes by "Ye" I've never heard of "Ye" as meaning "Yeah" but I'm not as online as I once was (also from the US, maybe this is used elsewhere) |
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| ▲ | kankerlijer 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I can think of a lot of reasons why someone like Zuck would be targeted for surveillance but the rest of us are fine. | |
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| ▲ | GlitchInstitute 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | who has a dedicated mic input port in 2025? I doubt any CEOs do. | | |
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| ▲ | decremental 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | markus_zhang 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It is easy to limit at home, but what if all of his/her friends are on social media? It is so difficult nowadays because many parents DGAF. |
