HERE this is ! Oh, ok GOOD ! It does deserve a separate thread, because it's become so pervasive, apparently.
Helpful for anyone dealing with families which include the proverbial spoiled brats.
This woman who was telling me this was saying that there is a link between the children's unwillingness to WORK anymore
or even do anything beyond simple chores and the addiction to these gadgets.
Other adults have told me too that it's shocking to see teenagers lolling around, not doing anything constructive,
let alone getting a JOB to help their family out financially.... but always tons of energy to devote to their texting or whatever it is they do.
One told me he let his children do video games in moderation but he kept a close eye on which ones they were doing.
I suggested, though, that even those supposedly better ones be trimmed back, because ALL have a detrimental effect on the
eyes, soul, spirit, mental state due to the ugly images and unreal state.
It's all something on a computer. Not real life ! What are they learning? Nothing.
Instead the children are damaging themselves even with the "safer" games.
Now I know little about this area, but even one glimpse one day at a video game when a father was showing
me what they were was enough to put me into a state of stupefaction ! They seem so dark. Even evil.
He said he and his sons sitting at their computers a few feet away played these games avidly in their spare time.
He worked from home by computer, and thus took care of the children much of the day. [Another subject, but
seems more and more widespread these day, did anyone notice that ?]
I felt zapped by something awful and left right away. Just from that short view !
So what about these kids everywhere who are doing these day after day ?
How will they ever work, or contribute to the country ? How can they hold down a job even once they
get one after college, presumably ? Who will be there to run the country, even, when one thinks of how
damaged this generation has become [in my assessment and my friend's] ?
Maria, what you said about the kids not caring whether the parents even lose their house or have to go way into debt
to support the purchase of all the trendy prestige items to impress their peers is very important.
That attitude reveals not just a minor selfishness.
But NARCISSISM which is very damaging to all others around the person. Then, still worse, if unchecked to
sociopathy.
My friend that day didn't use those terms but was also alluding to that lack of respect for anyone but themselves
as characteristic of the type of child/teenager who is so engrossed in all these gadgets.
