how are you supposed to raise kids anymore

Modern kids (aside from your own genius-level progeny of course) seem to spend all their time bolted to a PC or a phone, don't appear to have any interests or skills, no drive to do much of anything. Even those under control at home will, of course, have friends.

The central enemy here is a combination of the internet, video games, cell phones. The side effect is a lack of skills, knowledge, and attention span.

I was trying to think of my own way to deal with that if I had children. About all I can think of is military school, become Amish or living in a cabin, or saying fuck it and buying a large sailboat.

My parents always made me go outside

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And still you didn't take the hint that you should have showered more often.

Isn't raising kids like raising dogs?

I mean, all you have to do is feed it, clean it, keep it indoors, and make sure to not harm it in any psychological way along with keeping it out of any physical harm.

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The central enemy ... internet
The side effect is a lack of skills, knowledge, and attention span.
Weird how the neurotypicals managed to twist the internet whose exact purpose was to spread knowledge and understanding and by extension skills and the ability to pay attention to these things.

Also kids are shit, lets try to train cats instead. Most of them are probably smarter and more useful too.

You must train them like rats and program them like robots. When they are young they learn observationally; do what you want them to do, don't just tell them. Classical conditioning can be used to root out undesirable behavior (think A Clockwork Orange), and when they're a little older you can teach them things verbally and manipulate them using reverse psychology.

The central enemy is an education system which doesn't engage them as much as modern technology. The result is that kids spend half the time imprisoned in a class room engaging in last century education practices and then use the rest of the day for abnegation.

They don't learn the core skills required to live in a globalizing, technological oriented world. Textbook knowledge and diligence are becoming less important skills whereas deep understanding, creativity, mathematics and self-proficient drive are being sought after in every industry.

Worse, the US is teaching entitlement and ignorance through underpaid teachers, No Child Left Behind and the false importance of self-esteem. Schools still don't have classes on basic psychological topics such as intergroup relations and the self or any basic skills that are needed for adult life.

The lack in parental education only perpetuates the problems. Parents don't know what to tell their kids and deviate towards either strict conservative upbringing to shield them from reality or barely any upbringing at all.

And then people blame the entirety of problems on the first thing which happens to be the outlet for kids' frustrations about a world which doesn't guide them into what is perceived to be their future. Video games, cartoons and rock music, those are the reasons why your child has a defiant attitude and doesn't know what he wants to be later in life.

What's cool is kids are born idiots. Your baby now is no different to a baby thousands of years ago. You could tell it that computers don't exist and it would be like, "What is a computer? I am a baby and do not understand such things."

Just don't let it have sugary chemicals or television or any of that stuff. Then when it's old enough it can decide for itself.