Tangentially related, what if the kid really gets into politics? Maybe, tiktok is not thaaaat bad.
The twelve-year-old activist is the son of Bern University of Applied Sciences professor Claus Noppeney. The 54-year-old lecturer has himself already made an appearance as a climate activist with Renovate Switzerland. “Thomas really impresses me. The courageous commitment of young people encourages me and gives me hope,” explains Noppeney. He accompanied the blockade on Thursday morning as a supervisor.
His son decided to take part in the action in Basel himself, says Noppeney. His son had already accompanied him on previous blockades as well as slow marches. “He had already been involved in the blockades a long time ago. That’s how the topic and the possibility became concrete.” The boy is interested in politics and is also active in the children’s parliament as co-president. “He has been interested in politics from an early age and is actively following the disaster. It’s also madness if the consumption of fossil fuels is still being subsidized.”
Blocking traffic as a form of protest is not a good thing period. Kido, just don’t do this, the adults around you are not necessarily the most rational human beings and you have to find your way…(if I could have a few words with this child )
Btw, I dont think he gets his ideas from TikTok, it is obviously his role model is his father which is not a bad thing per se. And ditching the school to take part in these protests? Ay ay ay, I would have drawn the line at this if I was his mom. I know Ißll get an avalanche of mud thrown in my direction if I argue this point on this former EF forum so I will get my coat… (cause apparently we have to offer unlimited support to kids even when they have the craziest ideas)
While learning French I’ve come across this video that reminded me of this thread (you should be able to use auto-translate subs if necessary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvxrRCA41Og
Do you have any examples? My algorithms don’t put that kind of thing into my feed so I don’t see it, and I’m not going to actively look for it because, well… algorithms.
Maybe your kids. But tiktok proves your general statement wrong. Kids these days are subject to much more media influence than we ever were and, naturally, they see much more than we ever did. What does this do to a young person’s brain is yet to be seen, but there’s absolutely and undeniably much more “fake” today that is successful than there was at any point in my earlier life
The amount of made-up rubbish adults spout, and believe, because they read about it on the internet (this is called research, apparently) is astonishing.
Nope. Anyway, it’s a temporary situation. The young growing up will get better at dealing with the current conditions. Much sooner than expected the talk will be “dad, you’re not getting this right…” and so on.
If anyone is at higher risk of keeping up with the changes, it’s the elder.
Nah, I think he has a point. Obviously kids are all different but on the whole they’ve grown up with this stuff, social media especially. None of us can speak for all kids, obviously, and there will be impressionable kids that fall for fakery and trends. It remains to be seen if those impressionable kids are the ones that are helicoptered and wrapped in bubble wrap by overprotective parents thinking that blocking them from everything is going to do them a favour.
And this is why you’re seeing teenage problems which didnt even exist 20 years ago. So yea, social media is a problem for young adults, not agreeing with this is not disagreement with me, its disagreement with facts.
If you’ve successfully managed to educate your children and they are completely safe and smart about social media, well done. This is not the majority though
Anyway, being highly impressionable comes along the ability to learn a lot of stuff within a short time. Most teenagers outgrow this and become reasonable adults. Basically, just how humans are.
Absolutely. There are horrific trends regarding self-harm, loneliness etc. that seem to be clearly correlated to the proliferation of smart phones and social media.
But it’s a rolling generational complaint, isn’t it? At the advent of TV, the older generations were denouncing the end of society. Every teenage generation has come in for some kind of sage finger wagging from the horrified “been-there-done-that” generation that whatever trend they’re into is going to somehow be a bad thing.
No, of course I haven’t. I just don’t helicopter and make stuff weird when it doesn’t need to be. Nothing shuts down communication faster than an adult scaring the shit out of a kid because the adult can’t deal with it themselves. I’m not unusual in this approach, either.
The kids I know from school and friendship groups are mostly all fine. Maybe the ones that were banned from anything and everything are a bit messed up but otherwise ok.
I should say I’m not trying to bash parenting styles, we’re all trying to do our best. Unfortunately you don’t give birth to a user manual at the same time as the baby.
Never had a friend or friend of a friend with anorexia/bulimia 20 years ago? No cutters? No suicides? No one was addicted to any substance and no one overdosed?
If that’s the case, it sounds like the Garden of Eden and I had no idea it existed until 20 years ago.
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