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Why does it seem like so many kids do not have any coping skills these days ?

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Fernie · F
I think it's because technology has dragged them away from interacting with each other and society. Screenagers. We, as kids, had to deal with each other's personalities good and bad. We did it eye to eye and learned how to communicate and compromise. So many of this techno generation are so thin skinned ...their social skills stink, coping skills non-existent. Interacting with people online teaches nothing. Cripes, they go right to suicide when things get the least bit difficult or unpleasant. They will be running things at some point
SW-User
This is so scary @Fernie
Fernie · F
@SW-User It really is CP! When I'm driving past the kids who are waiting for the school bus...on EVERY corner...there are adults there as well....just about every person there is looking down at a phone. I'm on a van with several other people and I point it out to them because it is horrifying...and the people on the van with me can barely lift their heads from their own phones to look out the window. Most people walking down the street are also looking down at a screen.
SW-User
Not kidding , I had some family over the other night ,every single one of them was on a phone ...love spending " quality " time together...🙄@Fernie
Fernie · F
@SW-User I keep thinking of that movie 'Invasion of Body Snatchers" only it's Mind snatchers and these people have been....changed, assimilated
SW-User
@Fernie It enrages me ...At one point I said " So sorry to bore you so much that you need your phone to entertain you " 🤬
Fernie · F
@SW-User What were the responses?
SW-User
They just looked at me weird ...🙄@Fernie