It was nice to open my Parenting magazine and read an article that supported everything that I believe. Like this:
Our collective whatever-ness about technology has become a smidge scary. Roughly one in five adults admits to poor mobile etiquette but continues the behavior because everyone else is doing it. It's time to rediscover undivided attention, eye contact, stillness, the nothings that happen between the somethings.
I love that! I totally agree - so many people are not looking at each other or even talking to each other because they are so busy staring at their phones. We have more than once walked into a restaurant and seen a couple sitting side by side working their phones. I don't know why I care what they are doing, but it irks me. Brian and I had a long conversation and wondered what we can do to stay focused on human beings and how we are going to raise kids in a time like this. We always have said no kid of ours is going to have a cell phone, but I am beginning to wonder. I'm the one who forgets my phone half the time. And I still take our phone off the hook every day. Am I the only one who doesn't want people to find me at a moment's notice?
Last week, after reading this, I took a week long break from Facebook. It was not a bad thing. I love FB for the networking part - and less for the I-need-to-know-what-my-2nd-grade-best-friend-is-doing-this-minute kind of thing. It's love/hate, I guess.
The article also talked about stay-at-home-moms who need some social outlet. Someone to talk to. I think that's me. I have a few favorite blogs that I love to read and somehow that makes me feel more connected or that I'm not doing this mom-thing all on my own. But then just today one of my favorite blogs wrote about the need to sometimes be bored here at home. That's just how it's going to be. And I think I'm starting to get it. For me, it's the need to not be plugged in all the time.
This is a whole bunch of randomness about nothing, but that's all I've got right now.
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