We often talked about kids who were born with silver spoons sticking out of their mouths or maybe clutching the spoons in their hands.

That was a metaphor which meant being raised in a wealthy or privileged family.

Today, we have kids born holding onto an iPad

We grew up understanding the function of a pacifier: that soft nipple-shaped dummy that soothes kids. A cheat code that has been replaced with smartphones and iPads.
A development that has created children who behave like tech junkies, addicted to their iPads. Kids who will trade food for screen time and will genuinely look depressed if the gadget is taken away.
The Best Uncle or Aunt of the Year award goes to whoever hands over their phone.
Without ever being taught, these kids can flip between online games, Facebook, TikTok, and other online spaces you have no idea existed, depending on their age.

Looking around, you will likely notice the kid who will display extreme anger with level 10 tantrums once the gadget is taken away. Kids who will go "buzark" displaying real withdrawal symptoms as they go ballistic because the gadget was taken away.

These kids sleep off while clutching tightly on their device, parents have to turn on the device to help them eat, and if you need them to steady for a few minutes, you have to connect them to these devices where they are hooked to bright coloured animations with songs and sounds designed to be addictive. Mindlessly scrolling and getting synchronised with the web has become the only reward they seem to appreciate.

A trend that has created socially distant children who are academically difficult to mould, often behaving like junkies with anger management issues worsened by the current permissive nature of modern parenting.
These tech junkies will grow up into a generation of cold individuals with less technical, motor and social skills, fashioned after the simulacra nature of the internet, we will have a generation that is far disconnected from realities. A generation of Techno-savvy-zombies who are as emotionally empty and lack empathy as the devices that built and shaped their personalities.

In the fictional book of reality, chapter 3, verse 8, we are advised to take the devices away from the kids; they may weep and throw themselves around. It's just the effects of withdrawal symptoms, they will be fine in the long run.

Giving your kids a device to keep them busy is not love; it is lax parenting, coated with buttery cream.
Kids need your time, a lot of it.
They need direction, guidance and your moral compass to grow into responsible adults.
Take your parenting role seriously and your kids will thank you as they grow up.

I am inviting @okere-blessing, @josepha @dequeen and @bossj23

Media Credit

Composer	@manuelhooks
Captured with	Galaxy-A15
Entry type	Freelance
Date	Monday. 2nd February.
	(@) 2026