There are times my kids want to talk about Roblox/YouTube stuff that I’m not interested or I dislike. But I listen, because I’m a parent and I want my rugrats to share their interests with me.
But yeah, I get where this comic is coming from.
The author agrees with you.
I waaaas going to make a joke here, but you said roblox.
So now I gotta be serious.
You need to take roblox away from your kids. It is a danger to them. Pedophiles play that game specifically because it’s easy for 43 year old men to talk to 7 year olds.
And the reason it’s so easy is because the CEO of the company that makes roblox has stated in the past they will NOT take actions to stop the very real pedophile problem on their servers. Essentially roblox is pro-pedo.
You need to take roblox away from your kids.
And here I was about to let my kid no longer be the only one of his friends not playing. So my theory that the Internet is dangerous and filled with predators to children still holds up, eh?
Always has been. I remember in the 90s being a 13 year old boy, talking on a chat service thats long dead now. It was called “talkcity”.
They were a collection of chatrooms. They had a chatroom for every niche. I hungout in the “teenchat”.
I can remember having people message me, claiming to be 14/F/Cali. I was 13/M/Ohio.
So I didn’t think anything of it at the time. But those chats were EXTREMELY sexual. Knowing what I know now, I was probably talking to a 40 year old dude living in his moms basement.
Even though talkcity is long dead, that behavior of targeted predators is very much still alive.
Even without YouTube, mother hated hearing me talk about Digimon and stuff. It was depressing. I had to listen to her ramble about her stupid colleagues, she could have at least pretended to listen to me ramble about Angewomon.
God, I feel that!
My mother was scared that anything I liked might be harmful, so getting her to let me enjoy my games and music in peace felt like a win. She wouldn’t feign any sort of interest, so if she asked a question you knew it was a threat.
In fact, I was almost 30 the first time either of my parents asked a genuine question about my favourite game of all time (that I spent literally thousands of hours playing). I was almost too shocked to answer.
I mean, I get that kid’s stuff is boring, but I feel like if you can’t take some kind of interest in your kids you shouldn’t have any.
Rant over. Sorry, I just wanted to say that you’re not alone!
The first time my mother was genuinely interested in a hobby of mine was when I started gardening last year. It was the first time I heard pride in her voice that wasn’t tied to education?
I’m very emotional now.
Did we have the same mom? I wish I could give you a hug, sis!
Gardening is awesome, by the way! What are you most looking forward to planting / doing in your garden this season?
I mean, you could be my identical twin, but I know they don’t have a lemmy account (yet) lol.
I’m going to plant some tomatoes, pink fang, assuming they survive the process! I’m also going to try some strawberries but the squirrels will probably eat them all lol
