“I teach young kids (Gen Alpha), and I’ve noticed that many of them can’t do this in school without falling to pieces.”

Hi, I’m Hannah Loewentheil, and as a Senior Writer at BuzzFeed I write about all things lifestyle, especially parenting, travel, and food.

"A lot of it is bad parenting. It's not just the iPads and TikTok. Many parents will step in before a kid is ever challenged by something and fix it for them so they don't learn to problem-solve. They expect me to spoon-feed them answers and refuse to do anything that takes more than a minute of thinking. They also make excuses for their kids' behavior and don't discipline them (I had a parent this week try to explain that the problem isn't that their daughter talks in class; the problem is that other kids are talking to her when she talks to them). I don't foresee these kids being able to function in any career that expects them to do anything other than precisely what they want to do, and that asks nothing of them."

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