A WOMAN has confessed to shaming a mother for the way she is raising her son.
Taking to the Reddit forum AITA, the post was captioned “AITA for telling my cousin her one year old shouldn’t use smartphones?”
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The Redditor explained how they recently visited her cousin, who has a one-year-old son, who she lets “use a smartphone to watch TikTok and YouTube Kids.”
The person said they “don’t like” young children using smartphones and think it is “harmful.”
While she understands how parents can be too tired to occupy their children, she said children’s screen use leaves their “brains at risk.”
The post said: “My mother called the boy, she wanted to talk or play with him.
“But the boy didn’t even move, constantly looking at the screen as if he couldn’t even register his presence.”
The person was “alarmed” by the child’s behavior and told his cousin that his son will be “ruined” if he continues to use smartphones, claiming that “it’s obviously not good for the brain.”
As for how the mother reacted, she became “defensive” and told her nosy cousin to wait until she had children of her own a day before commenting on her parenting choices.
“I just replied that I will be responsible and will not let my child use phones ever,” the post said.
The Redditor noted that he was not her son, “but just wanted to give some advice.”
The post quickly gained hundreds of comments with different opinions.
One said: “I completely understand what you mean, but YTA.
“Parents CONSTANTLY receive unsolicited advice from family, friends and strangers on the street.
“The minute you have a child, everyone in your life suddenly becomes an expert on raising children and every decision you make is questioned.”
Another supported: “She didn’t ask, so pay attention business.”
One commenter offered a different perspective: “NTA, although this is unsolicited advice – you are right.
“However, you need to accept that you will always encounter criticism when giving unsolicited parenting advice.”
Another person wrote: “I’m not going to boo you, you’re not wrong. Young children should not be glued to screens.
I don’t think parents are aware of how much time is spent on screens.
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“But I also understand why your cousin got defensive, you (who doesn’t have children) are calling her a bad mother and accusing her of ruining her son, when she only sees the smartphone as a way to keep the child occupied when she has other things. things to do.”
A third commented: “NTA. I don’t know why as a society we’ve decided it’s rude to call out terrible parenting.”
Someone who has taught in daycare centers for 10 years, as well as having children of his own who “predated the ‘iPad kid’ generation” gave his opinion.
The comment read: “I must say… These ‘screen kids’ are coming and they are a different kind of student.
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“They cannot hold a pencil or color, separate or cut paper with scissors (fine motor skills), they have ZERO ability to focus on tasks even when things are fun, and a severe lack of self-control.
“We expect very little self-control when they are four or six years old, but even for their age, it is lacking.
“Most of these kids are not experiencing the world around them to learn things like manners, sharing, resolving conflicts, how to open a snack, tie their shoes, pull up their own pants, and a million other things that kids learn by DOING, don’t WATCH.
“I just don’t think parents are aware of how much time is spent on screens, especially when we are so busy all the time!”
Would you let your one-year-old sit on the phone watching TikTok and YouTube videos?
And how do you feel about unsolicited parenting advice?
It comes after a mother is targeted for having 22 babies through a surrogate.
And another is criticized for choosing not to breastfeed her baby so she can have Botox.
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