This is all a cultural issue. Little kids are read to less often by their parents and they’re left with an iPad or iPhone to shut them up when they’re upset. The moment they get hooked on the dopamine of colorful YouTube videos like Cocomelon and pay to win games their brains simply seek out those cheap hypnotic thrills like a geriatric in front of a slot machine. Of course a plain static book won’t give them the stimulation they seek, especially when they’re not fully literate yet to appreciate it.
This problem compounds itself later on in school when they either refuse to pay attention at all in class or throw tantrums because for the first time in their lives they’re forced to go without their drug of choice for longer than a few hours. A lot of this damage is could’ve been prevented by their parents had they the discipline to not use an addictive digital pacifier at a critical age.
I mean yes, but Americans being low literary competency has been going on for decades.
When i was a teenager the average reading level was like 4th grade. It went up for awhile and now is going down again.
My parents stopped being able to help me with my homework once I hit middle school because it was too advanced for them. They also HATED that I loved to read. They used to mock me for it and tell me my eyes were going to fall out and nobody would like me if I didn’t stop reading and didn’t start watching sports all day.
This is all a cultural issue. Little kids are read to less often by their parents and they’re left with an iPad or iPhone to shut them up when they’re upset. The moment they get hooked on the dopamine of colorful YouTube videos like Cocomelon and pay to win games their brains simply seek out those cheap hypnotic thrills like a geriatric in front of a slot machine. Of course a plain static book won’t give them the stimulation they seek, especially when they’re not fully literate yet to appreciate it.
This problem compounds itself later on in school when they either refuse to pay attention at all in class or throw tantrums because for the first time in their lives they’re forced to go without their drug of choice for longer than a few hours. A lot of this damage is could’ve been prevented by their parents had they the discipline to not use an addictive digital pacifier at a critical age.
I mean yes, but Americans being low literary competency has been going on for decades.
When i was a teenager the average reading level was like 4th grade. It went up for awhile and now is going down again.
My parents stopped being able to help me with my homework once I hit middle school because it was too advanced for them. They also HATED that I loved to read. They used to mock me for it and tell me my eyes were going to fall out and nobody would like me if I didn’t stop reading and didn’t start watching sports all day.