Looking back on Life

Unfortunately things aren't the same as when you were a child. The socioeconomic divide has grown alot since you were a child. While technology has gotten better the ability for younger generations to attain the same lifestyle as their parents has become much harder.

Homes, health insurance (in the US), cars, education, pretty much everything has gotten more expensive while salaries have stayed stagnant.

 

My Mother & Father took on 6 Children and he did tell me that the average cost to raise us from the 1960's upwards to 18 years of age was about 15,000 dollars.

Today in the West..... On average, middle-income parents will spend $284,570 by the time a child turns 18. The largest expense is housing, followed by food. The cost of childcare varies widely and depends on where you live. The good news is that each additional child costs less, thanks to economies of scale.

Than because of social media and peer pressures...... most will end up with a Tik-Tok Junkie that won't even help out with chores or do school home work!

Philippines of coarse is a bit different but traveling abroad now thinking you will make enough to send home to Family, is surely coming to a point of hitting a solid stone wall. Best of luck.

 

Modern phones have a digital wellbeing app and parental control option in the settings (can be controlled remotely from the guardian's phone). You can limit the time each app gets used throughout the day, with anything over the time limit requiring a password/parental control to unlock.








(Note: my clock app turns the screen on when my phone is charging. JEFIT is a workout app that leaves the screen on while I'm working out. Everything else is under 1 hour usage.)

If that isn't an option most modern modems can block website/app access.

If a child is a digital/social media junkie it is the fault of the parent (and, in turn, whoever raised that parent...yeah, if your kids are f*cked up it is very likely sometime f*cked up raising you. Don't blame kids for being screw ups when you are the one who screwed them up.). Don't let a cell phone be your babysitter. Giving a child unlimited and unmonitored access to the internet is sh*tty parenting at best and child abuse at worse. You wouldn't hand your kid a gram of cocaine to keep them entertained, don't hand them a device with social media enabled (just as addictive as cocaine).

 

My daughter is 38 now (Police Women) She went doodles in her later Teens when I refused to buy her a cell phone. Told her not even to ask me again cause it's not going to happen. Never did happen either.

In Ref: To the term I used (Tik Tok Junkie) I was submitting if some one decided to raise a Child from a new born as of 2021, discussing the financial differences and what will the average Child be doing in 13 years from now. Parents will have even less control, devices will have changed, avenues to those devices and access will change, peer pressures stronger and so many other factors to get into. IMHO that's how I envision it. Tik Tok Junkies as common as piles of dog crap.

 

So are bad parents.

Parental controls have and will continue to evolve and improve with technology. Parents have more control over their children's access to technology and the internet than ever before. With the internet and devices moving to subscription business model it will become even easier to control and track what your kids do with technology. There will always be ways around these parental controls but it will become harder to utilize these workarounds since younger parents were brought up with technology and have thought of many of these methods themselves. (Much like how my parents almost always caught me trying to circumvent their rules with tricks I thought were clever and original but were actually already in my parents playbook. Example: to sneak out to a party with a friend by saying I was going to stay the night at a friend's house, then my friend would tell his parents he was going to stay the night at my house. That sh*t didn't work and my parents showed up at the party to drag me away.)

There will always be that battle between parents and their children. It's an arms race that will play out forever. If you are an elderly parent you are probably going to lose the battle on the technology front as you are working with outdated hardware and software and will need to go heavy on the physiological warfare to keep them in check.