[Serious] New/future Thai couples that have/will have kids, will you try to prevent your children from becoming “iPad kids” or is that not really seen as a problem here?

I have noticed that, at least on the US side of this issue, many millenials and even Gen Z couples are talking about how they will refuse to let their kids become “iPad kids” (kids addicted to using tablets/phones) as we can already see the major negative effects it’s having on current children. They won’t get their child a tablet and will block everything social media/dopamine related. I know when they become teenagers they will find away around it but they can at least prevent it when they are young children.

When I walk around the malls here, I see kids, maybe even like 2 year olds, just sitting in their stroller staring at an iPad. I’ll see them at the playground places and they are all just hudled up somewhere looking at tablets/phones. They aren’t even sharing the videos with each other. They are each on their own device scrolling tiktok or whatever apps. No laughing, no thinking, no learning, nothing. The parents are also sitting next to the playground, also mindlessly scrolling through TikTok/IG/Youtube. Quite often I’ll see entire families eating at restaurants all with their headphones in watching something on seperate devices. Even large groups of friends doing that at a bar/night market… it’s kinda creepy/surreal. Like a black mirror episode.

Now, I work with teenagers. A lot of them are socially akward. When I have them do group work, they don’t talk to each other at all. They just sit there, looking at their phones under the table, like they are trying to hide it from me but it’s obvious what they are doing. Even when I am right in front of them, they hold their phone under the table and just stare at it. There are maybe 5 kids out of a class of 50 that seem to be able to talk to people without anxiety or the desire to constantly check their phones.

They also have the attention span of a literal goldfish. We will be talking one-on-one and as soon as they stop speaking, straight to their phone. Then I start speaking, literally one second after they stopped, and then lock their phone and look at me. When I stop speaking, they look at their phone again, lock it, and start speaking. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Even when they are genuinely curious about something, they ask me a question, before I even start to answer, straight to their phone for quick glance at Tiktok/IG/whatever and back to me. Their brains seem to be literally fried.

I know this is not just a Thailand thing, However just from what I’ve observed, seems not many here really cares about this. I’ve talked with some parents about this and some of them think it’s funny… other think their kids use their iPad for school and “learning about technology”. I’ve also heard “If he doesn’t have his iPad he won’t stop talking to me” ….

Just wondering if you guys that have or are planning to have kids, will try to change this new issue that is arising in our society. Or do you guys see this in a different way, maybe there is something positive from this that I just can’t see.

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