I think kids not playing outside anymore is genuinely messing society up
I see it with my younger cousins and honestly it’s kind of sad. They’re not bad kids at all, but their whole childhood seems to be screens. Phones, tablets, YouTube, TikTok, games… just constant entertainment all the time
When I was younger, we were basically forced to go outside. My mom didn’t want me sitting in the house all day, so you’d end up knocking for friends, sitting on walls, walking around for no reason, riding bikes, making up random games, arguing over stupid shit and then being friends again 10 minutes later
And looking back, that was actually important
You learned how to talk to people. You learned how to deal with awkward moments. You learned how to handle being left out, how to stand up for yourself, how to read people, how to make friends without overthinking every single thing
Now it feels like so many kids are inside all day being entertained but not really living. They don’t get bored enough to be creative. They don’t get pushed into random social situations. They don’t learn how to deal with conflict face to face
And as a girl, I think it’s even worse in some ways because so much confidence now comes from online attention. How you look, how many likes you get, whether you’re pretty enough, skinny enough, interesting enough. It’s exhausting and honestly kind of fucked
When you’re outside with your friends, you’re just existing you’re not thinking about filters or angles or whether your life looks good to other people
I’m not saying everything was perfect before, because it obviously wasn’t. But I do think we’ve taken away a huge part of childhood and replaced it with screens, and now everyone acts shocked that kids are anxious, lonely and socially awkward
I genuinely think this is damaging society more than people want to admit