Life caught up with me and I haven't taken the time to get all of these angry thoughts out of my head so I've decided to start blogging again. Why do I have angry thoughts in my head? Because nowadays being a good parent sucks. First off there are far too many lazy worthless people having kids that think you are insane for expecting your child to not be a fat, disrespectful little shit. Secondly, you have to fear for your damn life that if you happen to discipline your child in public, someone is going to call the police. I'm not talking about beating your kids here folks...I mean something as simple as raising your voice.
Now to get to the main point for this post....
The IPad
The IPad has turned into the modern day nanny, allowing parents across the world to ignore their children. Yes, I know that IPads have some great learning apps for kids and thats not really my problem with them. My issue is with parents that use it as a tool to keep their children entertained so that they aren't bothering them. Even with the learning apps available on IPads, multiple studies have proven that children turn into mindless little zombies with little to no respect for adults when they spend a lot of time on them. For those parents that justify their children spending hours upon hours on these baby brain numbing devices by pointing out their educational benefits, I say this. Get your ass of Facebook and teach your children yourself. Parents would be shocked to find out that, yes, you can teach little Bobby yourself without a teaching degree.
An even more alarming trend are the number of parents giving IPads to toddlers and babies. Seriously folks, what in the hell does a 2 year old need an IPad for?
These are usually the same parents that bring the little tikes IPad with them everywhere they go. EVERYWHERE. IPads at the supermarket, in restaurants, movies. You name it, I've seen it. What better way to show the rest of society that you don't have any control over your children in public, so instead you choose to keep them occupied. Whatever happened to teaching your kids how to behave like respectable children? Usually you can find these parents glued to their IPhone, completely ignoring their children anyway.
Moving on...their is also an alarming trend of new IPad holding devices out on the market. Most of these are just sickening. You can find everything from bouncy chairs made for babies, to the almost absurd device I've pictured below.
Now, I personally, would find such a device marvelous for a full sized toilet. But as a potty training aid?! Really?! Especially for boys, I can foresee this leading to disaster in their later years. You see, men are genetically ingrained to spend long amounts of time, reading damn near anything, on the toilet. Its a natural safe haven for men. When the nagging of your wife and the whining of your kids gets too much to handle....its time for a bowel movement. On average, most men spend 8-14 minutes on the toilet. In 20 years, little boys that were potty trained are going to be spending hours on the toilet. Can you say ruined marriages directly as a result of IPad enabled potty training?
In summary, parents need to spend time with their children and get IPads out of their faces. Otherwise, they are going to turn into little zombies that will spend immense amounts of time on the toilets as adults.
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