Chris Liss on Nostr: Woke up annoyed today. Last night we busted our 12.5 YO for having an Instagram ...
Woke up annoyed today.
Last night we busted our 12.5 YO for having an Instagram account. (Apparently she opened it last week, convinced her best friend to open one, friend got busted by her mom, mom texts my wife, busted.)
I’m not really angry at her for doing something we told her never to do — when you raise a kid who questions authority, inevitably she questions YOUR authority too.
But I’m pissed because the cunts at Instagram and Tic Tock et al have essentially taken away my daughter’s freedom to discover the world for herself.
We’ve recently let her roam the city, surf the web on her Raspberry Pi, etc. We want her to experience the benign neglect of Gen X. Back then, maybe a few kids got hooked on drugs, but it was by far the exception. Mostly, we just did normal stupid shit and learned from it.
Now though you can’t leave them to their own devices because drug addition (smart phones, which she doesn’t yet have, but many of her friends do and social media) is the norm.
It would be like growing up in a drug-infested city where you couldn’t let your kids out of the house by themselves at all.
I don’t want to spy on her, have to constantly police what she’s being exposed to, but the world has ever more potent ways of hooking them now. (The other scourge is this retarded “skin care” trend wherein they buy toxic af products and use them, another battle to fight.)
When the society is your enemy, being a parent is tough. Makes me want to move to the country and home school, though my wife has no appetite for that. (Truth is, I don’t really either, but I would do it if we got to the point where I felt it were necessary.)
Just fucking annoyed at the evil of our society and the dim-witted, fit-in-at-all-costs ethos of other parents.
Last night we busted our 12.5 YO for having an Instagram account. (Apparently she opened it last week, convinced her best friend to open one, friend got busted by her mom, mom texts my wife, busted.)
I’m not really angry at her for doing something we told her never to do — when you raise a kid who questions authority, inevitably she questions YOUR authority too.
But I’m pissed because the cunts at Instagram and Tic Tock et al have essentially taken away my daughter’s freedom to discover the world for herself.
We’ve recently let her roam the city, surf the web on her Raspberry Pi, etc. We want her to experience the benign neglect of Gen X. Back then, maybe a few kids got hooked on drugs, but it was by far the exception. Mostly, we just did normal stupid shit and learned from it.
Now though you can’t leave them to their own devices because drug addition (smart phones, which she doesn’t yet have, but many of her friends do and social media) is the norm.
It would be like growing up in a drug-infested city where you couldn’t let your kids out of the house by themselves at all.
I don’t want to spy on her, have to constantly police what she’s being exposed to, but the world has ever more potent ways of hooking them now. (The other scourge is this retarded “skin care” trend wherein they buy toxic af products and use them, another battle to fight.)
When the society is your enemy, being a parent is tough. Makes me want to move to the country and home school, though my wife has no appetite for that. (Truth is, I don’t really either, but I would do it if we got to the point where I felt it were necessary.)
Just fucking annoyed at the evil of our society and the dim-witted, fit-in-at-all-costs ethos of other parents.