Hi everyone! 
This topic has gone in a very different direction, which I have some insight into, so Iâd like to react!
The situation is, I donât know if youâve noticed, but itâs 2025 (almost 2026), not 1980! As the world has changed, so has everything with it. Whether we want it or not, itâs not just our upbringing that shapes childrenâs personalities, but the presence of peers, neighbors, and cousins is also significant. If my child doesnât learn something on their own, friends come along and heroically inoculate them with some idiocy, which I think is completely natural somewhere. We didnât listen to our parents either; our friendsâ opinions were always more important. One could say it has to be this way⊠This generation has different priorities! Itâs impossible and absurd to raise a child using the same methods and bound by the same rules as back then, which we know often included violenceâŠ
These little ones can be very resourceful and smart! Believe me, most of these children are fine without phones! Hanging out at the playground, tag, hide-and-seek, and teasing each other are still childrenâs favorite pastimes! Mine, for example, loves listening to music lately (they prefer K-pop bands called Stray Kids and Blackpink, because as I mentioned, 2026 is approaching, not Y2K) and has recently gotten into books, which Iâm particularly happy about. Theyâve already compiled a pretty nice list of books they want to read.
Iâm writing these things because, honestly, Iâm a bit tired of constantly seeing how people belittle this current generation (often with terribly ugly terms). Unfortunately, Iâm reading some of that here too, and I have to refute you! Kids easily go to the store and buy milk and bread because it makes them feel a bit like adults. This is also a coolness factor. If thereâs a good reason (if someone they like visits, or just guests come), theyâll even clean their room on their own. Because interestingly, they can also brag among themselves about whose room is the nicest. (My daughter recently got a new wardrobe, and even people who have never visited our home have heard about it, because you can brag about that too.)
This is impossible, as kindergartens are so overcrowded and kindergarten teachers are so overloaded that children are only kept back in kindergarten with a thorough reason, and they can stay there for a maximum of 1 year. For average children, a speech therapist usually keeps them back, while for special needs (SNI) children, the reason varies but is always found in the expert committeeâs opinion!
If Iâm not mistaken, youâre confusing Snow White with Sleeping Beauty. The original Snow White was written by the Brothers Grimm in 1812. Not even a kiss happened in it! The prince is so impressed by Snow Whiteâs beauty that he falls in love looking at her, then persuades the dwarves to give him the girl, coffin and all. That happens, and when the servants carry her down the mountain, one trips, and due to the jolt, the poisoned apple jumps out of the girlâs mouth, and she wakes up. Disney composed the kiss in 1937. What youâre confusing it with is Sleeping Beauty, which has an ancient 14th-century version (on which the currently known version is based), whose original title was The Sleeping Girl. In this, the king finds the sleeping Sleeping Beauty, but canât wake her up in any way, so the perverted king impregnates her in her sleep, and she gives birth to twins in her sleep. Moreover, a hungry infant sucks the poisoned splinter from her finger, and then she wakes up. Yes, the 14th century was very darkâŠ
The generative AI youâre thinking of is a Large Language Model (LLM), it doesnât work based on random comments found on the internet⊠DonĂĄt wrote about it earlier here broadly. But the point is, itâs not so simple that someone writes something somewhere on the internet and the LLM will treat it as fact and use it. Before all that, the given information goes through many filtersâŠ
It wonât become self-aware, this isnât M3GAN. (The second part is also good, I highly recommend watching it.) When we talk to AI, itâs not actually capable of engaging in the conversation in a literal sense. It calculates what the next word to display should be based on statistics, because itâs mathematics and probability in a neural network. The neural network doesnât âknowâ what an apple is, but it knows that the words âred,â âsweet,â and âfruitâ statistically occur with high probability in the vicinity of the word âapple.â Compared to the fictional Skynet, AI is just a calculator.
Generation Z encompasses those born between 1997 and 2012. That is, those aged 13-17 (or 14-18 projected to 2026) who, although they grew up with the increasing popularity of the internet, are also part of the offline world. Generation Alpha encompasses those born from 2010 to the present day. Itâs inevitable that they will be part of the online world, but since they are still quite impressionable, they can be guided towards what is right. Letâs not look at them as if no one is raising them!
Well, regarding the original topic. Thank you, Ărpi! These are very useful experiences! Although I would love to see photos of Barcelona and generally of where you traveled! 