It's a startling statistic: A new study finds the number of kids accidentally poisoned by the over-the-counter sleep aid melatonin has soared by 530% over the past decade.

The melatonin and i-pad time generation is gonna be deeply unwell holy

  • knife [any]
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    3 years ago
    • give kids access to software designed to constantly undermine their attention through manipulative design. Don't blame Google OK?
    • keep them at home or doing some adult supervised activity 24/7. Unsupervised play among their peers is dangerous, they could be kidnapped!
    • school is just a giant prep course for a series of standardized tests. If your kid sees no point in that, though luck!
    • kid can't focus/sleep/is acting out? Give them drugs!
    • what do you mean this is not how humans have developed for most of their existence?
    • Oh, so you want out? OK, how much cash do you have??? :porky-happy:

    keep in mind I'm a dipshit who has never had to raise a kid, but things look bleak indeed.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      If your kid sees no point in that, though luck!

      I'm not defending teaching to maximize standardized test scores but kids don't see the point in a lot of things that are objectively good for them and they should be made to do.

      When I was a kid I didn't see the point in eating vegetables, and in retrospect I'm glad that my parents sat me down at the table and made me eat my greens.

      • D61 [any]
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        3 years ago

        Case by case basis, but on this issue it seems more justifiable.

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      The internet has destroyed my circadian rhythm, and yet all the sane, non lib people I know are all on the internet. Hoist by my own petard...