Childless 22-year-old criticizes brother for raising 'iPad kids,' claims he's better at taking care of them after 12 hours of babysitting: '[They were] very calm children, as opposed to the brats they are when they're with me'

Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor

May 31, 2024 8:00 PM EDT

Before you become a parent, you have a lot of pie-in-the-sky ideas about how you'll raise your future children. Those ideas might include totally eliminating screen time or not letting them get social media until they're 18. However, once you actually have kids, you realize why parents let them play on their iPads for 8-hour car rides. It's not easy to keep a kid entertained for 14 hours a day every day, and sometimes you have to do things that go against the leading psychological studies.

That's where this family comes in. A 22-year-old psychology graduate was being super critical of his brother's parenting style. He accused his brother of letting his kids become "iPad kids." He also doesn't like the fact that he lies to his kids occasionally and uses candy as bribes. All this came to a head when the younger brother babysat for his brother's kids and claimed that he was better at taking care of them.