Five year olds 'having panic attacks over socializing with their friends'

Re:Five year olds 'having panic attacks over socializing wit... by mikewarot on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @10:56PM (#27613368)

When I was a kid, we were told to go outside and not come back until the street lights turned on. We didn't have computers, internet, or more than 5 TV channels on our 1 family TV.

Now the media has scared everyone into keeping their kids inside 24x7... then the plague made it even worse.

How can you not expect kids to end up with all that free time being burned up in screens? Parents don't suddenly have more free time, and energy, to deal with kids than they did in the 1970s.

Many of the children in the 1st world haven't been in the same room with other children in a year. Of course it is going to be difficult transitioning to our new normal.

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Re:Five year olds 'having panic attacks over socializing wit... by uvnq on Thursday June 24, 2021 @01:50AM (#27614374)

I feel like kids learn a lot about how to socialize from other people. How much worse off will they be learning from screens and people acting (pretending to socialize) instead? Additionally, they won't have the ability to practice socializing either.

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