grandkids glued to devices

I worry about what they are viewing on the Internet. At least most books were harmless, except the ones I found under my mother's pillow.
The children of today have so many opportunities to see unsuitable material.

No Gran !!

I do agree, it’s not so much that they’re playing on them, we’re never going to stop that now, it’s the absolute rubbish they watch on YouTube, my two nine year old granddaughters watch the most stupid boring people doing the most boring stupid things, I can’t stand it!

At least when my head was stuck in a book, I wasn’t subjecting myself to that!

Am I the only one who has just looked up ‘omnivorous’?
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I was exactly the same with books as BlueBell said. I was expected to socialise with family and guests when they came to the house though. I think parents should insist on a modicum of interaction at least that is only good manners.

A tablet is no more antisocial than a newspaper. My grandfather was always behind a newspaper as I remember it.... maybe he did it to avoid socialising but he was praised for his knowledge of current affairs

We were one of the few houses with a landline when I was a teen. My friend was another. Adults didnt understand how we could spend hours on the phone after hanging out in school all day! The local payphone was also haunted by and dominated by teens

Thats teenagers not modern devices. Same was said about walkmans & record players.

Yes, I too was an omniverous reason. My mother told me off once because when asked for any suggestions for presents I would like for my birthday. I replies with one word. 'Books'.

I suspect, if I was a child in this generation I would be glued to my device but more for information than communication.

Oh it's not just the youngsters now. Staying with equally elderly relatives (who shall be nameless), I was amazed to find them glued to their devices even while the TV was on. Maybe they were reading or catching up on the newspapers. I don't think they were gaming, but whatever caught their attention, it made them just as antisocial as my teenage GC.

I too was eternally getting told off for having a book under the covers at night, at the table if I was eating on my own, even in the loo, it’s no difference
Of course teenagers don’t want to talk to grandparents would you know about the latest drum and bass or who loves who on Love island nah No generation lives up to their elders standards, always has been, always will be

Where I had the local Youth Club and my head in a book, they have their phones and enough sports and after school clubs to fill the week. It is modern life, no doubt one day they will be just as mystified by their teenagers.

It’s not just them (oh dear).
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Me too Monica and I always had my head in a book and my father used to go on about that too. How can reading be a bad thing?

Between 14 - 16, I usually wanted to be in my room. I was very unsocial - and that was long before devices of any kind.

Yep! There's nothing you can do about it. I don't know how old your grandchildren are but we found ours wanted to spend more time with us again in their later teens. Fourteen - sixteen seemed to be the years when they just wanted to be in their rooms.