I need to say this because it genuinely hurts my heart every time I see it. Please stop giving your toddlers iPads to keep them quiet. I cannot tell you how sad and honestly disheartening it is to watch really young kids sitting in strollers or tiny chairs with a screen in their hands while they are completely disconnected from the world around them.

Some of them are already hunched over with that little forward neck posture from staring down at a screen for hours. It scares me because it looks like the early stages of bad posture, eye strain and even delayed social development.

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A lot of these toddlers barely look up. They do not make eye contact, they do not interact, they do not observe anything happening around them. It feels like watching childhood get slowly replaced by technology and it makes me worry that many of these kids will grow up feeling isolated, socially anxious or unsure how to talk to people.

Kids need real life experiences and play and conversation. They need to touch things, run around, get messy, meet other kids and learn how to socialize in the real world. They need to build natural curiosity and survival instincts, not rely on a device to entertain them every second of the day.

When I was a child I could not wait to run outside and play with the other kids in the neighborhood. That was where we learned how to share, fight, forgive, explore, take risks and develop real human skills. I wish more children today had the chance to experience that same kind of natural childhood. I am not saying screens are evil or that parents are doing anything malicious, but I do think it is worth slowing down and thinking about how much time toddlers spend on devices and what it might be doing to their emotional and social development.

It is heartbreaking to watch a generation grow up surrounded by endless technology but disconnected from the real world. I wish kids could just be kids again.

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