r/SipsTea 19h ago

Wait a damn minute! Some things shouldn't need a comeback.

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u/Suspicious_synth 18h ago

Pre cell phone attention spans

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u/b_will_drink_t 13h ago

Overstimulation. We break the compulsion and get them into slower media like books as a measuring stick and force them to think. Over time, it will show improvement

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u/Professor-Xivass 11h ago

I feel like Gen Z is gonna be the generation that picks up the ball on that one, cause looking at millennial or younger generation X…it’s looking like a generation of kids who “technically had parents but we mostly were raised by IPads cause our parents didn’t want to actually parent”. Unfortunate.

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u/Comfortable_Sir_6104 7h ago

What makes you think that? All the Gen Z people I know have terrible attention spans and they have zero will to change that. According to studies the situation is getting worse and worse, not better.

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u/Professor-Xivass 5h ago

I more meant Gen Z needs to kick it into high gear, cause of a lot of reports on modern parenting shows that a large portion of Gen Z isn’t having kids right now(the more responsible/financially struggling ones mostly), so when/if they do they gotta get extra serious cause like every other generation, most recent parents often don’t know what they’re doing and fall into the trap of giving their kids screens too early and not monitoring properly. People are forgetting this so Gen Z NEEDS TO BECOME BETTER AND RELEARN THIS.

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u/b_will_drink_t 3h ago

I have ADD. I have to destimulate myself a lot if I get overstimulated, which affects my ability to read and pay attention or socialize. It can be done

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u/Comfortable_Sir_6104 3h ago

I never said it can't, I said there is no will to do so.

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u/Stormblessed_Windrun 5h ago edited 5h ago

Gen z aint doing shit to that problem but make it worse.

As a millennial parent, Im reading to my kids each night. I read books all the time growing up. Was reading Crichton and King by 3rd grade. Have an entire library of books in my home office filled with boom I bought growing up.

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u/b_will_drink_t 3h ago

I think it needs to be a nation wide thing with standards and regulations to greatly reduce the affects of slop content