I don't know. Maybe I'm naive here, but my kid has pretty much always had a tablet, she's had a game system, she has access to my laptop and access to my smart phone. She doesn't want one of her own. She's 20 now, BTW.

When she's on the I turned she watches speed draws on YouTube while listening to NightCore predominantly. It's been that way for years. She goes through Pinterest a lot. TikTok, but that's more ha ging out with me watching animal and artisan clips mostly.

She's always had friends over and they've had the same access. They never wanted to spend their time on the internet, they wanted to hang out and do some kinetic learning and fail spectacularly at trying to do this that or thenthird and then laugh about it.

Their patents always co.plained about them never wanting to do anything bit sit on screens. I never knew what they were talking about. They had great kids. Shame they didn't notice it. Too busy "parenting" the Dobson way SMH, like many of the male commenter's above. Hammer time parenting. That doesn't work either.

I've found most kids to he starving for acceptance and attention. When they get that, they don't care about screens and they don't pitch fits over handing them over either. They "conveniently" forget them, leaving them at home.

Naw. I'm pretty sure it's the adults who are the problem. People shouldn't have kids (if they can help it) until they're prepared to parent them instead of barking at them all the time and because they want them for decent, not ego centered, reasons, and they're prepared ro love them for who they are instead of trying to make them be something they're not. They're not dolls or legacies or status symbols. They're people.