iPad kids and brain-rot: A Maldivian crisis

20 hours ago

The term "iPad kids" has become a familiar, if unsettling, label for a generation tethered to glowing screens from infancy. We've all seen them: the silent child in the restaurant, eating distractedly, staring at a YouTube video; the toddler in the stroller, jumping awake to the intro music of 'Cocomelon'. What appears to be a convenient distraction is, for many, a