Interesting to see my only-child cousin (who seemed clever as a toddler) at 7 barely being able to read road signs after watching Youtube gaming videos all the time on a tablet, whereas at the same age my reading age was at least at secondary school level (based on the in-school reading levels). Interesting, because one of the upsides to being an only child is supposed to be that you end up reading more.
Won’t matter in the end as long as she can actually read well enough by GCSE age (as a young kid you learn to read, as an older kid/adult you read to learn), but it’s not a good start.
Obviously it’s important for kids to fit in with social norms, so if all the other kids are talking about social media, then parents kind of have to let their kids do it too to some extent (they can still limit it), so that the kids can fit in with their age peers.
Social media affects on everyone’s brains, but particularly young people, is going to be looked back on as an absolute societal error that we didn’t control it before it became ubiqutious.
The correlation between young woman’s suicide rates and the advent of social media is terrifying and while it doesn’t prove anything, it’s a big concern.
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Interesting to see my only-child cousin (who seemed clever as a toddler) at 7 barely being able to read road signs after watching Youtube gaming videos all the time on a tablet, whereas at the same age my reading age was at least at secondary school level (based on the in-school reading levels). Interesting, because one of the upsides to being an only child is supposed to be that you end up reading more.
Won’t matter in the end as long as she can actually read well enough by GCSE age (as a young kid you learn to read, as an older kid/adult you read to learn), but it’s not a good start.
Obviously it’s important for kids to fit in with social norms, so if all the other kids are talking about social media, then parents kind of have to let their kids do it too to some extent (they can still limit it), so that the kids can fit in with their age peers.
Social media affects on everyone’s brains, but particularly young people, is going to be looked back on as an absolute societal error that we didn’t control it before it became ubiqutious.
The correlation between young woman’s suicide rates and the advent of social media is terrifying and while it doesn’t prove anything, it’s a big concern.