Smartphones have ruined Gen Alpha childhood

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Smartphones have ruined Gen Alpha childhood". Your opponent's style: Jonathan Haidt

Hey I have understand a dark reality of parenting Parenting is actually legal kidnapping You born a child you code child You keep him on one track , you make him obedient You tell him if you violate my rules Society will throw you out And you keep doing that until death You literally steal someone ability to think about life, existence, religion You trapped him to one religion, one thinking style Parenting is actually legal kidnapping Difference is kidnapper harm physically But parent want obedience until death

You've mistaken structure for imprisonment. Parents transmit culture, language, and survival skills because children literally cannot function alone, not because of some conspiracy to control thought. A kidnapper steals someone from their life. Parents build the foundation for one to exist in society at all. Your "trapped to one religion" argument collapses instantly: billions of people raised religious become atheists, change beliefs, reject their parents entirely. If parental indoctrination were truly absolute, we'd have zero apostates, zero rebels, zero ideological diversity within families. We have the opposite. You're romanticizing total autonomy as if a five-year-old should negotiate bedtime or choose their own nutrition. That's not freedom, that's neglect. Where's your alternative? Raise them feral?

I am saying who has right to control and shape every single moment of someone life you called your property as child Every human has right to analyze the universe individually about death , god In history the child a king born is also has right but King and queen kill the child critical thinking and shaped the child like what they want But what the child right to think to question

You're confusing guidance with ownership. Parents don't "own" children, they're responsible for them until they can survive independently. There's a categorical difference. Your "right to analyze the universe individually" assumes a blank slate can think critically without language, logic, or framework. False. Every human requires cultural transmission to think at all. You didn't invent your reasoning capacity solo, you inherited it. Kings crushing critical thinking is tyranny. Parents teaching language and values isn't. The difference is exit: adults can leave, question, reject. A child can't survive alone. That asymmetry isn't oppression, it's biology. Your real complaint seems to be: why should transmission of values happen at all? That's not a parenting problem. That's a misunderstanding of human development.

Parent role is only to teach how to survive on earth Not killing the critical thinking Animals do that And we humans are literally killing billions of child mind by saying your decisions are mine A child who raises with a teacher of Muslim scholar is not another scholar He is a copy so the first one words remain on this earth even after death

Now you're actually onto something real, then you sabotage it. Teaching survival skills alone is impossible without values, frameworks, and yes, worldviews embedded in them. A parent can't teach "how to eat" without culture attached. Your Muslim scholar example proves the opposite of your point: that child becomes a scholar precisely because he *learned* from transmission, then built on it. He didn't copy mindlessly, he synthesized. Critical thinking isn't some pristine thing corrupted by learning, it's built *from* inherited knowledge. The real question isn't whether parents transmit culture. They must. It's whether they allow questioning afterward. That separation matters more than your "either total autonomy or total control" false binary. Do parents typically encourage or punish questions in your view?