TikTok Has Me TERRIFIED For The Future of Gen Beta...

For the next 14 years, we're in Gen Beta. And as of now, Gen-Z are the new millennials... buckle in, because we're in for a RIDE.
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[necordektox]

That bartender who had the 9yr old tell her she can't read...if I were her I would've given the parents the nastiest look. Those parents should be ashamed of themselves. It's neglect.

[Kiwijinniee]

I’m 13 years old, and my history teacher has told me and my classmates “you guys need to learn how to be bored.” I think about that a lot. Whenever I see my teachers, I feel like my classmates just make them HATE their job. Some of my classmates have zero respect and do not shut their mouths when told to. It’s actually scary.

[selenacordeiro]

I made sure I taught my daughter at home before she was of school age and by grade 1 she was reading chapter books and was ahead of everyone. There was no way I was gonna let her watch a screen all day.
She would often come home to me after school and tell me she couldn’t talk with kids her age because they were like seagulls and they would just stare at her with their mouths open 😂 so she made friends with teachers… the only people that understood her and her humour 😞

But she became a piano teacher at 16 and now she’s in university (1st year), and has finally met other kids on her level! There’s still hope out there! lol

[uznaimat]

06:35
Another point to note about TV. The rise of streaming services is not only decreasing the excitement of waiting for new episodes, but is also decreasing the length of the content itself. Shows these days only run for 3-4 seasons, with each season containing less than 10 episodes most of the time. One show I watched that aired in 2010 (the previous decade, mind you) ran for 9 seasons, each season containing _26_ episodes, clocking in at a whopping total of 222 episodes. My point is that the creative spirit is dying. Writers are unable to find stories that can reasonably stretch that long - the shows are short and are over in a couple of years. Adventure Time has 283 episodes, Regular Show had 244 and Steven Universe had 160.

[kirsty]

A lot of my mental disabilities were discovered as a kid when my teachers and parents noticed I was REALLY struggling with reading and writing and was not performing at my grade level. I got testing, my diagnoses, and then the support needed to help me stay within my grade standard. Going into highschool and now as an adult, I'm perfectly literate and actually ended up out performing a lot of my peers.

Since Gen Alpha is collectively performing on a much lower level in reading and writing when compared to older generations, I worry about how many learning difficulties will be missed. No one will notice possible learning difficulties because none of the students can read, write, pay attention for long periods of time, or even socialise appropriately. They may never end up getting the support they needed to succeed and will constantly be pushing to catch up to others.

[demolitiontyler]

Pre school teacher here. We got 6 year olds who can't sit for even a few minutes and listen to a book because the pictures aren't moving. They can't focus on anything that isn't a screen. They can't spell their own name and have no understanding of basically anything, but they know all the viral songs, tiktok sounds, and can unlock an ipad, open youtube, use microphone to say what they're looking for, click away the it's crazy

[WeavementSesestea]

Ok, I admit I was one of those Gen Z kids who stayed inside and played hours of 18 wheels of steel and NASCAR video games, but I still find it insane how most Gen alpha kids nowadays don't even know how to hold or insert a CD.

[kayleighdriessen]

I was born in 2001 and I've been terrified for the first babies born this year before 2025 even arrived, imagine if by the time I'm in my 40's and Gen Beta ends up growing up having never heard of a playground or unstructured play before.

[Ifeellikesomething-gr]

8:40 bro, my sister is 9 and she could read that. Now I understand why she complains that her classmates are dumb

[TheRealJoJoSins_YT]

I’m sorry but I have to say this, as a Gen-Alpha child. I cannot go outside because I’m basically locked in my house. So I kinda have no choice. Also these things are out of control.

[kmontgomery]

I’m in the uk where it’s even worse than back home in Oz. I was at the bus stop and there were these 2 little girls with their mum and nanna. The littlest, maybe 2/3yo, started ‘chasing’ the birdies that the nanna was throwing her food to - totally natural for a child to just interact with their environment, she wasn’t doing anything or actually chasing them just interested and slowly following and pointing at them. The mum however abruptly picked her up forced her back into the pram, little girl then started kicking and crying, mum then said “I told you if you didn’t stop you’d have to go back in” mum then handed the girl her phone and the tantrum stopped and the mum turned back to talking with the nanna. Her older sister then came and stood beside her so that she could watch and the little one then gouged her older sister’s eyes and face so then the older one started crying.

[ZozoVM]

A girl asked me if “Lemur” was a real word…I am in the eighth grade, ADVANCED language arts💀 (I also read Frankenstein in the fifth grade, this is wild).

[lollipopxvids]

I find this situation to be so sad ngl. Most of my younger cousins are gen alpha and yet they’re smart asf.

[sodab]

As a young gen z (high schooler), it’s frustrating. I WANT to go to the park, to the library, to bike through my city. I WANT to be able to visit my hometown one day and actually know where I am going. But I can’t, and I don’t think I ever will. Hell, I’m not even allowed to go to the GYM in my apartment because “it’s too dangerous”, when you literally need a KEY to enter the building, and enter a code through a keypad to get inside the room itself. Adults created a world where if you want to go anywhere, you need a dumbass car (that or walk for 30/40 minutes to the park), if you want to do anything you have to be 18+, have a drivers license, and download a ton of apps to do anything. It’s extremely annoying how convenient companies try to make things. I’m perfectly fine with cooking my own meals without a screen constantly in my face. I’m perfectly okay with writing my OWN essays for school. I may not like doing these things all the time, but it’s very rewarding doing something you don’t normally enjoy and successfully accomplishing it. Having inconvenience in life is how you gain life skills, everyone.

[MelanieFan-mrdo]

When I was little I had NEVER had a device until when I was in HIGH SCHOOL and I am THANKFUL for that, also when I was little everything was more colorful and now everything is being modernized to look "pretty" like tf and its sad that these gen beta AND gen alpha will actually never have a childhood like past generations

[JimA]

They made us do vocabulary words every single day. Homework every day was more vocabulary. They beat that crap into our heads so deeply. They shamed the hell out of you to learn this stuff. I’m worried about medical care of the future if kids can’t even read at 13. HOLY FUDGE!!!!

[rachelreadsromance]

This "thing" of asking social media instead of finding the answer yourself is truly becoming an epidemic. I see it so many social media platforms and it's exhausting.

[Ducko-gfg]

Hey, 2013 kid here MOST of us are actual normal people. We have EMOTIONS we have FEELINGS we have TRAUMA. But there are kids like this we know, just i wish more people would understand that most of us aren't ipad kids all the time looking at brainrot.

[vibingtwo]

11:42 they’re calling someone an “unc” for being 19 in 2025 💀💀💀💀

[KristianYeager]

When I was a kid, I was in a library almost everyday! And I didn’t have an iPad, iPhone, or even a laptop!

Kids these days… 🙄