Yup. Not just limited to kids or teens. Many adults 18 to 80 are addicted to their phones. I want to scream when I see young mothers with their children, ignoring them and the surroundings while they stare and scroll through their phones. Most of the little ones have a phone or iPad device to keep them numb-busy too. I see a lot of middle-aged persons who are addicted to their phones. I have a neighbor who just can't ignore any incoming text...even when she is with company or driving!!!
Unless some catastrophic event occurs to limit or obliterate these mind-control technological toys, I think we'll have a lost generation. Only conservative-parented/home-schooled kids who limit this kind of interaction will be able to thrive.
When I worked bars and restaurants this shit pissed me off. You give a kid a phone or IPad instead of having a family dinner and teaching your kids table manners and how to act in public.
You know what's sad? Typically in my young Catholic community where there are many young parents with young kids, they're all doing a pretty good job restricting screens from their children, homeschooling them, moms stay at home, etc.
However I was at a sort of Catholic cafe one day with my mom, picking up some food from the counter, and in the sit-down table area I saw a young family with a mom, dad, son, and daughter. The kids were no older than 5 and they both had their own personal tablets plopped in front of them, watching or doing who knows what, while they were eating. Totally zoned out from the world. And even better, their parents were doing the exact same thing on their phones. Not even interacting with each other, let alone their kids.
I wanted to scream, run over to the parents and ask them why they can't have a nice meal together and face each other like normal human beings. But of course, you know how it is with spoiled, lazy parents these days. If you try to mention one bad thing about their parenting they will turn into raging, swearing banshees saying, "Don't tell me how to raise my kid!"
The rot has infected even the most "normal" and "conservative" communities in society.
My granddaughters were in a small town beauty contest. All the moms were on their phones and all their pageant daughters had bags of chips and candy and were stuffing their faces behind the stage. One little black girl ran over to this womans child that was right next to her, and applied lipstick all over her face-mother on her phone totally unaware. Girl ran back to her family, and it was aWHILE before that mom noticed her kids face. She was like, "What on earth?!" Lol, she almost went out on stage like that.
Um, this issue is not limited to kids.
So in other words he has screen-free memories!
Lots of truth to what you're saying though.
Yup. Not just limited to kids or teens. Many adults 18 to 80 are addicted to their phones. I want to scream when I see young mothers with their children, ignoring them and the surroundings while they stare and scroll through their phones. Most of the little ones have a phone or iPad device to keep them numb-busy too. I see a lot of middle-aged persons who are addicted to their phones. I have a neighbor who just can't ignore any incoming text...even when she is with company or driving!!!
Unless some catastrophic event occurs to limit or obliterate these mind-control technological toys, I think we'll have a lost generation. Only conservative-parented/home-schooled kids who limit this kind of interaction will be able to thrive.
When I worked bars and restaurants this shit pissed me off. You give a kid a phone or IPad instead of having a family dinner and teaching your kids table manners and how to act in public.
You know what's sad? Typically in my young Catholic community where there are many young parents with young kids, they're all doing a pretty good job restricting screens from their children, homeschooling them, moms stay at home, etc.
However I was at a sort of Catholic cafe one day with my mom, picking up some food from the counter, and in the sit-down table area I saw a young family with a mom, dad, son, and daughter. The kids were no older than 5 and they both had their own personal tablets plopped in front of them, watching or doing who knows what, while they were eating. Totally zoned out from the world. And even better, their parents were doing the exact same thing on their phones. Not even interacting with each other, let alone their kids.
I wanted to scream, run over to the parents and ask them why they can't have a nice meal together and face each other like normal human beings. But of course, you know how it is with spoiled, lazy parents these days. If you try to mention one bad thing about their parenting they will turn into raging, swearing banshees saying, "Don't tell me how to raise my kid!"
The rot has infected even the most "normal" and "conservative" communities in society.
Exactly! I've seen that way too many times. :-(
My granddaughters were in a small town beauty contest. All the moms were on their phones and all their pageant daughters had bags of chips and candy and were stuffing their faces behind the stage. One little black girl ran over to this womans child that was right next to her, and applied lipstick all over her face-mother on her phone totally unaware. Girl ran back to her family, and it was aWHILE before that mom noticed her kids face. She was like, "What on earth?!" Lol, she almost went out on stage like that.
Funny, but sad.