Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5222wn410o

43•defrost•8h ago

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jdlyga•6h ago

A silver lining to this is new parents are very aware of the dangers of screen time. In my little community, I haven't seen parents of kids under the age of 3 give their kid any type of screen especially when they're out. It's a real generational divide, since I used to see kids with tablets in restaurants everywhere back 5 or 6 years ago. The new thing is screen free electronics, like a device kids can stick cards in and it repeats words in English or Spanish.

ido•1h ago

I think it’s a class divided too- (financially) poor parents give their kids their phone but richer/more educated parents don’t.

crassus_ed•1h ago

I recognize this too. There must be a correlation between the parents' level of education and the screen time the children have. Would be an interesting study.

adrianN•57m ago

I‘d wager that the correlation is with how exhausting the parent‘s job is. Screens are excellent for keeping children occupied, keeping them happy in healthier ways requires a lot of energy. After working a hard job, running a household and worrying about whether you run out of money before the next paycheck I can imagine that many parents just don’t have the mental resources.

jansan•28m ago

If that was true you would see unemployed parents being best at keeping their children from the screens. It is awareness, i am pretty sure about this.

King-Aaron•13m ago

From a parents perspective, I feel you are incorrect.

Almost every other parent I speak to are well aware of how detrimental screen time is to their kids, and yet often still use devices when they're too tired for much else.

latexr•2m ago

Someone who is unemployed, especially if they’re poor, doesn’t suddenly have a lot of free time and headspace. On the contrary, they just got more stressed and pay even less attention since now they have yet another urgent issue weighting on their mind.

teekert•23m ago

The awareness is nice, but the friction is still there. So much energy goes into discussions about screen use, it's a real drain on the relation with my kids I feel.

It's important to be clear and set boundaries, but there is always that one friend where they go to and just watch YT shorts until deep in the night falling asleep like a zombie. Moreover, my kid is often the only one with a locked phone (gets 2 hr a day which is also the time he is on the bus). I think it is already insanely much. But he still wants to plays Minecraft as soon as he comes home, this is also quite obsessively (he's in a lot of SMPs). Again it's nice he has a passion but too bad it's for a screen. My daughter in contrast can just play in the garden for hours.

Of course he's not allowed most of the time, but the pressure is always on.

tapoxi•22m ago

We got my daughter a Yoto and it's a great device. She sticks a card in and it plays music or an audiobook. There's a "screen" but it's a low resolution pixel grid that shows pixel art of the current track.

bestouff•21m ago

3 years old is very, very young as a "no-phone barrier".

hexasquid•3h ago

Disney, here to save kids from screens.

Reminds me of when I saw a bunch of tshirts with the word "PUNK" written on them displayed in a window in a mall.

steve_adams_86•1h ago

Why would I extend the creative energy to figure out how to look punk when I can get the shirt for just $49.99

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm•51m ago

I remember when Pixar created a virtual skinner box.

somewhatgoated•21m ago

Che Guevaras Image used to be the most widely sold T-shirt print (or maybe still is?)

qsera•3h ago

Even worse is what the screen is showing...Every new animation on youtube appear to involve some toilet reference, like if I look up dinosaur cartoons, most of the hits will be showing farting dinosaurs or potty training dinosaurs with animated shit (literally). Disgusting...

WTAF?

Thankfully there is also a wealth of 90s and older cartoons to be had if you care enough to search for them...

kelseyfrog•2h ago

So called "potty humour" aka "poop," has never been funny. What they want is for us to see excrement and giggle. That’s the rule, that’s the goal now.

bshepard•1h ago

Who is "they"? Rabelais? Mozart? Alas many of us humans DO find poop to be funny, forgive us fallen shit stained beings.

sonofhans•1h ago

I mean, really, what’s funnier than a monkey flinging poop?

Cthulhu_•41m ago

A devil with a giant bare ass flinging pork butts and taters with a catapult to an anthromorphised cow and a chicken, whose parents are only pairs of legs.

Cthulhu_•40m ago

I'm more of a comedic vomiting guy myself, e.g. "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs"

delbronski•9m ago

I’ve noticed a lot of fear mongering with screens and kids. So called “experts” have taken a few correlational studies and concluded that screen time is the devil. Instagram is full of these podcast clips of experts warning parents of the terrible effects of screen time. However, if you actually read any of these papers, they make it quite clear that is impossible to fully separate screen effects from family environment, and effect sizes are often modest.

Giving your 2 year old an iPad with YouTube everyday for 2 hours is obviously going to be bad for them. That’s a terrible extreme. But 20 minutes of Bluey here and there throughout the week is not gonna mess anybody up.

So while I’m glad people are more aware of the negative effects of screen time, I also hate how extreme it has become. Parents, specially new parents are so susceptible to this kind of fear mongering.

throwfaraway135•8m ago

Whoever thinks Disney/Hollywood cares even a little bit about children is delusional.

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