When you shelter your children from the world to an extreme degree, you end up getting one of the most popular stories in both Europe and Asia for the last 2500 years:
I'm hoping my kids become digital buddhas. :) More seriously I hope they learn that online is not better than IRL. But that means giving them IRL experiences in addition to roblox. yet here I am posting on Hacker News... I did have the neighbors over though for dinner the other day. I think a good thing parents can do is have dinner parties. Show kids how to be social.
But dinner parties mean time away from Roblox and YouTube! I know this struggle, especially in winter. I think kids still want to socialize but struggle more often these days with how to do it. It’s easier for many of them to do it online when they can leave a situation at any time they want, and it’s hard to adapt to the pressure of being stuck in a social situation. What used to be “rage quitting” in games seems to be normal now. Maybe kids just need to learn more about the art of the excuse to leave.
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