Children are losing touch with the physical world, a third of toddlers perceive a book as a broken gadget

The British office Kindred Squared conducted a survey among teachers who accept children to preparatory classes, where they go at the age of 4-5. And it turned out that a third of these young gentlemen and ladies look at a paper book as if it were a broken iPad. They poke their fingers at the pages, try to “swipe” a picture or enlarge the text with a pinch, but the paper – what a mess – does not react. No tactile feedback, zero interactivity, informs Ukr.Media.

And if only the problem were in the books.

Almost 40% of children who crossed the threshold of school in 2025 are about as ready for this very school as I am for a flight to Mars. Teachers tell wild things: almost a third of children do not know how to eat or drink on their own. That is, the basic “survival” settings are not activated. And 26% – and this is the saddest statistic – have problems with the toilet.

Sure, you can roll your eyes and start grumbling about the “lost generation,” but it's not the kids who are broken. It's us adults who are a little lost.

Experts say the reason is abjectly banal: screens. And not just for kids. While the little one watches a cartoon on a tablet, parents are glued to their smartphones, trying to escape a reality where the cost of living is rising faster than Bitcoin in the best of times.

Felicity Gillespie, who led the study, calls it a “systemic crisis.” Parents simply don't know when to turn off their gadgets and start parenting. Or they just never do because they have to earn money to use that same tablet.

It becomes a vicious circle. We give our child a screen to get silence, and then wonder why they are trying to “close the window” in the primer.

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