https://blog.spacehey.comForum Topic created by Jade https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=748686https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=748686I'm 20 and my brother is 15 - we're both Gen Z raised by two Gen Xers, but he is way too addicted to his phone and it saddens me a bit. I got my first smartphone at 11, but I wasn't allowed to have social media until 16. (I never cared for it anyway) My brother was once a very cheerful and talkative boy, but as he became a teenager he started to spend too much time on his phone, and now he rarely ...Fri, 16 May 2025 02:14:27 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=657394https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=657394as a millennial, we ARE failing - we said we would not become our parents and many of us became exactly who we hate and i am sorry that many of my peers who became parents did not learn from their own parent's mistakes.  i did not become a parent myself because i am still undoing a similar type of damage that would not be fair to pass on to a younger generation. i am so happy to see my younger fri...Mon, 10 Jun 2024 02:44:50 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=657145https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=657145Raising kids on tablets and smartphones almost feels like some sort of failed social experiment and we are just now starting to see some of the long term effects/damage of raising a child in such a way from reduced attention spans to other, more alarming effects such as long term trauma (the latter of which seems very likely to strike your sister as she gets older). Parents in the future should st...Sat, 08 Jun 2024 22:03:41 +0000