> Stop worrying about making kids popular and making them conform in ways beyond basic manners and respect.
They dont worry about them being "popular". They worry about them being excluded.
> I would say hi, show them a magic trick, do some comedy bits I had been working on, or share the latest anime I was into. Whatever. Making friends is the skill to build in a kid, not technology conformity.
How do you show latest anime without device? Where did you met kids willing to go to your house first time they met you?
Why do you assume lack of android/ios devices means lack of computers. I would 100% help a kid build a desktop computer and maybe give them a linux tablet. App culture, which revolves around the major smartphone platforms, is where the addictive data harvesting apps come from, many of which refuse to run on anything but ios/android specifically because they are far more limited in data harvesting in a web browser where one can install privacy plugins.
A kid can use Freetube on a laptop or tablet for instance with no need for a Google account, and without targeting or ads.
They dont worry about them being "popular". They worry about them being excluded.
> I would say hi, show them a magic trick, do some comedy bits I had been working on, or share the latest anime I was into. Whatever. Making friends is the skill to build in a kid, not technology conformity.
How do you show latest anime without device? Where did you met kids willing to go to your house first time they met you?