Why Gen Z Won’t Be Raising ‘iPad Kids’

As the tween “Sephora kid” epidemic makes headlines, parenting, or the lack of it, has become a larger cultural discourse. While parents have been making socially questionable decisions since the first child was born, these choices didn’t always come with people on the internet judging their every move.

Different renditions of the phrase “I am not raising my kid like that” have plagued the internet since before Sephoragate. These comments usually come from yet-to-be parents and young people who criticize the parenting decisions of older generations. As Gen Z become parents, they’re planning on de-introducing things that millennial and Gen X parents led with—one of the biggest is not raising an “iPad kid.”

The term itself refers to a generation of children born into the boom of smartphones, growing up reliant on technology like touchscreens and constant internet access. While previously a loosely defined term for children who were handed devices in social situations, iPad kids are shifting from parenting to scientific discourse.

Read more at The Daily Beast.