/b/ - Siberia

Maybe we should not be treating teenagers like toddlers and then wonder why they do dumb shit like this?

This kinda stuff had it happened four decades ago would just end in a spanking though.

Regardless, “kids will be kids” is dangerous after age ten.

take her phone away lmao wtf is that!!

>>160966
As punishment yes.
Back in the old days, kids used to do prank calls or HAM radio spam messaging.

IMO, we should allow kids to develop more sophisticated forms of recreation.

And not the cliche ballsports either

>>160988

dude has special vendetta against ball sports xd

yes, as punishment. and yes children lost all safe environments to play/develop or have fun

>>161013
>dude has special vendetta against ball sports xd
Yeah, it screams "in school jocks kicked my ass and dated the cheerleader I had a crush on."

>>161026
No. I’m talking about how childhood recreation is always being funneled into exclusively ball sports

>>161027
It's really not. It's funneled into TV and video games, as has been the case since the Boomers were kids.

>>161031
You mean since Gen Y.
But what I’m saying is that childhood recreation is limited in diversity and nuance.
Childhood culture in general is tbh

>>161035
No, I mean since the Boomers. Once microwaves and TV dinners became a thing, kids got glued to their TVs. And Gen-X spent their whole youth (and then the rest of their lives) with a keyboard under their fingers and a screen in their faces.

But yeah, you are right abotu childhood recreation being limited. Everything children may wish to do is limited beyond all reason. They are being hidden away from the real world in every way at least ostensibly to keep them safe. Of course, such overprotection completely fails to keep them safe and rather exposes them to new dangers like diabeetes, obesity, technology addiction, a crippling lack of social skills, and an inclination to absolutely hate life. Playing rubber ball games with other kids would mitigate the effects of a lot of those.

>>161042
I think you’re misunderstanding me somewhat.

>Playing rubber ball games with other kids would mitigate the effects of a lot of those.

Bruh, kids already do that even today.

I’m talking about more technical recreation like sewing, cooking, building computers, etc.


>crippling lack of social skills

IMO, social skills are over focused on nowadays for childhood development. Or rather, the way adults go about socializing children is often more a chattel form.

Children are expected to constantly be dragged around and smothered by their peers.

>>161042
>And Gen-X spent their whole youth (and then the rest of their lives) with a keyboard under their fingers and a screen in their faces.

Gen X is born 1965 thru 1980.
Personal computers became popularised by the late 1980s. Unless if you mean the latter end of Gen X, they are more likely to be like boomers in their childhood consumption of electronic media

>>161031
If this the case, how do you explain that ball sports being the mainstay of youth recreation?

Not being into sports before the 2000s was considered weird.

>>161043
>Bruh, kids already do that even today.
>Not none! There are SOME!

>I’m talking about more technical recreation like sewing, cooking, building computers, etc.
Lel, that shit ain't recreation; those are jobs.
>IMO, social skills are over focused on nowadays for childhood development.
Then you are wrong. Zoomers can hardly talk to one another if they aren't texting. It's cringe to watch them try.
>>161050
>Personal computers became popularised by the late 1980s.
The Apple II came out in 1977, and the Commodore VIC-20 hit American markets in 1980. The cool kids all had computers or at least a video game console. On top of that, they were even more addicted to the TV than the Boomers were. They weren't known as the MTV Generation for nothing.
>>161051
That is really just your own personal fantasy.

>>161053
>Then you are wrong. Zoomers can hardly talk to one another if they aren't texting. It's cringe to watch them try.

Do you even hang around zoomers or are you relying on cliche strawmen? Zoomers still socialize with each other outside of texting.

Also, social skills are all the rage of discussion in child rearing.
There's endless suggestions for parents to do group activities with their kids.
Solitary recreation is viewed negatively, even if it's not electronic media.

>Lel, that shit ain't recreation; those are jobs.

Ball sports is also a job.
Those technical skills are also recreational.

>The Apple II came out in 1977, and the Commodore VIC-20 hit American markets in 1980. The cool kids all had computers or at least a video game console.

Those kids were outliers. When PCs first came out they were expensive. It wasn't until the end of the decade that the costs were more plebian friendly.

On top of that, they were even more addicted to the TV than the Boomers were. They weren't known as the MTV Generation for nothing.