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Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[–] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I only ever had Facebook, Twitter and Reddit and just couldn’t get into Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, etc. so this is really perplexing to me. It just can’t be true can it?

I also can’t stand using a phone while watching a TV show (paid streaming, no ads) or a movie. It’s sad to me that people are unwilling to immerse themselves in something for just a while.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Did you have an iPad/phone shoved in front of you during mealtime, or when waiting for a sibling during their sports practice or game, or while waiting at the doctors office, or if your parents had guests or were visiting a friend, or in literally every single potential moment of boredom that could be filled with learning patience, reflection and just enjoying silence?

    Because that's the new normal for a whole generation of kids.

    I have young kids in gen alpha, bought them up with quite minimal screen time, and the behavioural differences between them and their peers that have been bought up with heavy screen use iPad as the primary tool of choice is stark and very concerning for those kids' future.

    And lemme tell you, none of the parents I gently tried to encourage the importance of boredom with over the years changed their behaviour much. As soon as it became a regular tool to deal with an child needing attention it became a very hard thing to part with.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    It distresses me to see this trend. It's like some parents have a reflex to stick a tablet in front of their kid, even if the kid doesn't need it or ask for it.

    I work with a 4 year old kid who loves looking out windows. When he has free time, he often goes to look through them, even though there's nothing particular interesting going on out there. He's a chill little dude, completely mute, and I've never seen him angry. I've been told he likes to sit in a big chair on his front porch and watch everything and everyone go by, like a little old man on a summer day.

    Yet every morning he comes in, he walks in holding a tablet. It doesn't make any sense to me. I'm fairly certain this kid would be happy staring out a window for the whole 15 or so minutes it takes to arrive.

    I always loved staring out the window in the car - I loved long rides because of it, showing little to no interest in whatever our destination was. It gave my mind the space to wander, to ponder, to go on imaginative flights of fancy that helped me learn to organize my thoughts. It's upsetting that kids are being deprived of such moments nowadays.

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