Roughly 30 teens referred to Rush University Medical Center in the past year displayed a range of involuntary actions, from jerking arm movements to curse words to head and neck twitches. Self-injurious behavior was common, according to some doctors, with many patients displaying bruises and abrasions resulting from their tics. Caroline Olvera, a movement-disorders fellow, noticed that numerous teens were saying the word “beans,” often in a British accent. Even patients who didn’t speak English were saying it. Some patients mentioned they had seen TikTok videos of others with tics.
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Found it from :trueanon:
It's free and it doesn't hurt anyone, which is more than you can say for most afterschool activities.
didn't 30 kids have to go to hospital and then presumably have the most embarrassing story ever told by their parents 20 years from now
tbh, too much screen time for impressionable kids is a parenting failure
yes and no parents often have to work long hours and it's also not great to constantly be monitoring your kids. Also we're talking about teenagers they should be able to be left unsupervised and not be rushed to the hospital.
It's really easy to just call things a parenting failure while ignoring that parenting without failure is essentially impossible
You're right. There was no way my dad could have monitored my computer usage.
if you take away a teenagers computer they devote all the time they were spending on the computer to getting it back.
There's not much of a reason to take away a computer, so much school work is done on computers nowadays.
that's just as well because it's really bloody difficult to do in the first place
Yeah I'm in the beans club.