Michelle Lehnardt: Turn off your cellphone/iPad/Kindle and listen
A generation from now, I wonder, will we look back at this decade and laugh, “Remember when we were all obsessed with devices?” Or will we scarcely look up, completely absorbed by virtual lives?
I’m determined to do better. My phone can stay in my purse and my laptop can remain closed more often. I don’t want my children to remember me with my head hunched over a screen; I want them to remember my eyes looking into theirs, laughing out loud, answering questions and listening with my whole heart.
Writer, photographer Michelle Lehnardt is raising five future fathers and one little mother. She writes at scenesfromthewild.blogspot.com on building chicken coops, hosting tea parties and missing her missionary son in Italy.
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I agree with this totally. We are raising a generation who do not know how to communicate face to face and it's getting worse not better. I think texting is fine for short messages, but not iPhone in hand 24/7 (and especially not in Church!) More..
What do you expect? Schools feel technology is the way to teach, and now we have a generation of addicts.
Keep it simple,---pencil, paper, glue, scissors, and books.
Kudos to that conductor! I would love to have a Smartphone or an Ipad loaded with useful, if not entertaining apps, but I know myself well enough to know that I would be on it ALL THE TIME. Over the past several months I've tried to limit the More..