Posted on 02/23/2012 5:31:36 PM PST by ellenbrewster
What usually is a treasured opportunity for cross generational chit-chat became a silent car ride as a luminescent glow eerily lighted his facial features in the back seat. My grandson has mastered a hand-held electronic thinga-ma-jig which muted what had previously been a casual forum for conversations about life-in-the-now and even life-everlasting.
No knock-knock jokes. No “Hey, look, a horse trailer and it has horses inside!” No seemingly insignificant queries such as, “Justin says there is no God. Is that true?” Where once we easily conversed about hurt feelings, roadside beggars, birthdays, bullies and the like, this day the unilateral dialogue produce an infrequent, “Huh?”
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As a teenager my daughter had a handle Nintendo set up. My rule always was simple, you may play on a long trip but only AFTER 20 mins of conversation. A long trip had to be over an hour. Not all children will like this but it worked well with us
As a teenager my daughter had a handle Nintendo set up. My rule always was simple, you may play on a long trip but only AFTER 20 mins of conversation. A long trip had to be over an hour. Not all children will like this but it worked well with us
Right you are; parents have to monitor and limit their kids’ use of these brain drainers.
GREAT ARTICLE!!!
Simple, yet hugely energizing.
Be a grown-up and dump the electronic crap.
Out goes the Gameboy, X-box and whatever clic-clac-clap-trap crap they’re pushing at the moment. Kill your TV.
Rediscover your families and what relationship really means...
Never mind.
Half of you, yes, so-called conservatives are in this number and even “Christians” are facing an implacable 50% divorce rate.
Oh well. Get your own X-Box and let the kid drive. Heck, just get a chip planted in your head.
LOL, tell us how you really feel! Good comments, thanks.
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I’m at the unenviable age when I see what philosophy and integrity really mean. Many, too many, of my friends and aquaintances are reaping what they have sown. Fine people - many of them - but what they have said they believe and what they have acted upon are two different matters. Now, after decades, the piper comes to call.
Very sad and inevitable for way too many who doubt consequence.
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