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“I’m a kindergarten teacher, so I have no shortage of stories of kids who fight tooth and nail every time we need to put away the iPads and switch to a different activity in class. my husband and I visited Disney World last summer with our best friend. We kept running into this same family, and every time we saw them, their early-elementary-age kid was glued to his iPad. As we were boarding a ride and getting ready to move, he still had his tablet in his hand, blasting noise from a game with bright light coming off of it. I very politely asked them to put it away, and mom snatched it from him, turned it over in her lap, and snapped back at me, ‘YOU’RE WELCOME!’
“During the ride, the kid fidgeted and asked his mom how long he would stay and if she could give him back the iPad. When we finally finished the ride, she just handed it right back to him and loudly complained to the rest of her family that we child-free adults shouldn’t be taking up precious Disney space for people who do have kids, because we have no idea what it’s like. Meanwhile, I’m thinking, ‘I’m literally an elementary teacher, and your kid is so brainwashed they can’t even be engaged with fricking DISNEY WORLD!'”
—Anonymous, 25, VA
