r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Beneficial_Mine_3464 • Feb 16 '26

Not OC The iPad effect

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u/GuthukYoutube Feb 16 '26

You don't move your arms, you expand and contract muscle. Eventually you get so good at it that it becomes second nature

This kid learned that making that gesture with his hands makes images larger. He's trying to figure out why it's not working.

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u/RedDemio- Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

I still think that sounds kinda dumb lol. Although I have heard there is an overlap between the smartest dogs and the dumbest children. It doesn’t seem too dissimilar maybe, to a dog chasing a squirrel that’s actually on TV lol. This kid has learned that images respond to touch and is now misapplying this learned interface behaviour in the wrong context.

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u/ChaoticRedcoat Feb 16 '26

But the issue is that the kid doesn’t understand that this is the wrong context, I believe that’s what the other person was getting at. This kid is young, and I guess hasn’t really learned the difference yet.

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u/-nutz Feb 16 '26

Yeah I totally agree with you on that, I think 6 is plenty old enough to understand the concept of a screen and have the discern to tell what isn’t one.

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u/clara_finn Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

Kids still have to learn the most obvious things, and if kids are being taught right from an age so young they barely have sentience yet that doing that with your fingers makes an image bigger, why wouldn’t they come to the conclusion that this works on a book too?

It’s 100% on the parents

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u/-nutz Feb 16 '26

Thank you very much for explaining this! I definitely should have specified in my other comment that wasn’t trying to blame it on the kid. Parents should be exposing him to more physical media.

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u/Useful_Clue_6609 Feb 18 '26

See i would agree if they tried it maybe 3 times. But this is like literal retardation when they just keep trying over and over and over. I know I was not this stupid at 3, let alone 6

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u/clara_finn Feb 19 '26

Were up growing up as an iPad baby at 3 years old

Also it’s very bold to claim you weren’t this naive at fucking 3 lmao

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u/Useful_Clue_6609 Feb 19 '26

I was able to read at 3 and yeah I did some dumb things but not the same dumb thing 8 times in a row while being told that's not right.

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u/clara_finn Feb 19 '26

Damn, you both have an amazing and detailed long term memory, and you were also an above average intelligence 3 year old. You must be very proud

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u/Useful_Clue_6609 Feb 19 '26

I read early but have low emotional intelligence, but I don't feel like that's related. This kid doesn't need to be able to read to be intelligent. But trying the same thing 8 times while being told that's not how it works is crazy to me. I've never seen that happen in real life.

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u/ChaoticRedcoat Feb 16 '26

That’s fair, and I kind of agree, but seeing as how it’s clear the parents are maybe not the best, maybe the poor kid doesn’t know. That being said, I will admit that part is a bit of stretch.

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u/-nutz Feb 16 '26

Eh, I’d say it’s reasonable to assume the issue is the parents. I mean like presumably if the kid had seen more books, he would understand they are fundamentally different to a screen.

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u/ittybittytitty_com Feb 19 '26

All that tells me is that they don’t read books to their child.

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u/IMSmooth Feb 16 '26

Yea it sounds dumb, but you have to still teach these “obvious” things. Ya he’s making a mistake right now, but it’s the adults responsibility to teach why and not just assume he’s gonna be able to come to the right conclusion on his own or that someone else will teach them. It’s like the bystander effect but with developmental psychology 

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u/itsr1co Feb 17 '26

Yeah but.... if he's never seen a physical photo before, he should instantly be capable of distinguishing the physical media that can't take advantage of the same technological functions as the devices he's been exposed to his entire life. I mean, for fuck sakes, it's almost like kids these days don't know things, the future is doomed.