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GrandPriapus t1_izyeoc2 wrote

In the past 5 years I’ve seen an increasing number of kids who can’t self regulate and lack basic emotional self-control. I’ve long suspected mobile devices-as-pacifiers might be the reason.

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SolarStarVanity t1_izzpqtc wrote

Emotional self-control is frankly something I saw a frightful lack of when I first came to the States. Long before smartphones. I wouldn't be surprised if what you were seeing was just a result of you getting older, as opposed to something categorical changing in the nation's children. Self-control has never really been adequately rewarded here.

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Kalapuya t1_izzs6xg wrote

I’m an American and I totally agree, but I couldn’t even see it until I was nearly 40 with my own kids.

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