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because most (or at least too many) people do believe they become wiser getting older. Which is... a bit optimistic, to say the least, and at least as simplistic.

screen time is just a limit on time to learn if the kid is using it for the right purposes which you should teach them to

That too is a bit simplistic.

Screen time is (supposed to be) a teaching/control tool. Like school used to be about teaching kids limits and the value of hard work. Screen time is supposed to help kids learn there is a life outside of that phone... a very worthy motivation that completely fell flat when those kids can see adults around them waste their entire life on said phone, doing more or less stupid things like some junkies do their drug things.

But no matter how stupid adults can be around kids, the idea of giving kids some help in learning selfcontrol is great...A bit like putting safety wheels on a bike is a great idea when a kid first learn to ride a bike.

As far as "the right purpose" goes, like we would all agree that learning stuff would be one such right purpose, I would be devastated to see kids only get their knowledge through a phone. Even more so realizing kids can't focus on a single task much anymore. Here in France, the gov recently published a study revealing that something like 40+% (if not 50+, I can't recalll the exact number) kids that are reading books (on their phone or on paper) also use their phone at the same time to do other things (social, or videos like TikTok, or even play games). And then one will wonder why school results are collapsing...

adults around social media think

LOL at that title.

Well, social media are the shithouse walls of the internet, and the lowest kinds of people can write all nonsense there all the time. Don't expect anything better than that.

The experience of someone younger doesnt match the one of an older person.

Also, youth tends to be a little rash.

Many adults arent wise

Because as stupid as the average person is, half of them are dumber than even that. The ignorant punch down to feel special.

Teenage years are known for being rebellious and older adults generally correctly remember themselves as being wreckless and rebellious at that age. It is a part of being human.

That said, if you want to be treated as wiser and "older" than you are, I would have to ask what is it about you that make people think you're young? I've had several cases in my teenage and early adult life where people assumed that I was far older than I was, mostly in part due to how mature I acted in given situations.

What is it about how you conduct yourself on the Internet that makes people think you're young and immature? You could be acting your age, but it sounds like you're frustrated with people treating you like you are at your age's maturity level.

Ultimately, I think it's a convenient excuse to cover for how truly difficult it is to teach people important things.

The adult mostly doesn't actually remember the specific logical and/or experiential steps that contributed to whatever understanding they now have. The events are too disconnected in time, and too large in quantity to really parse that way. You need that background info to teach well, though, otherwise you can't handle questions, you can't explain, etc, which are all genuinely important parts of teaching.

So, it's easier to just handwave the problem away and focus on going to work, whatever is for dinner tonight, what's going on in the neighborhood, cleaning the house, etc etc etc, and leave the teaching to the ostensibly qualified people.

If you want to attempt to do things differently, when you learn something life-lessony, remember that to teach it to a teenager someday, it's not good enough to have just learned the thing. You're also going to have to be able to offer a decent-enough explanation and answer any questions.

not wasting food is a good thing to learn and tons of screen time can never be for the right purposes. Its good to learn how to use computers right and have fun with them but moderation like in anything is always important.