I am so tired of seeing headlines along the lines that watching TV and playing games on the tablet or on the iPhone are ruining our children's language skills, motor skills and social abilities.
Saturday and Sunday mornings were for watching cartoons when I was young. We spent days, from morning till evening, trying to slay dragons on the Nintendo. It wasn't educational content, it was entertaining and that was it.Yet, I can talk, I can write, I suck at sports but my brother excels at them, and I have a nice social circle.
However, I don't remember going to the restaurant with my parents for a family night out and both my parents spending the meal playing with their phones. I don't remember my parents being more interested in a game of Candy Crush than in the people around them, whether it was us or their friends. I never spent breakfast staring at my father while he read on his phone (I'm looking at you H). My father read the paper, but he would share the cartoons with us and still talk with us. During the evenings, my parents would sit on the couch with a glass of wine and talk, or have friends over. There was laughter and conversation. They wouldn't each be sitting at a different computer, stalking the Facebook page of a "friend" they hadn't talked to in years. When we did a fun activity, they would participate, instead of spending their time trying to capture the perfect picture of us, so they could post it on FB and try to impress their "friends" with their great parental skills.
Can we please stop blaming our children's use of technology for "ruining" their skills, and look at the parents use of technology?
Preach, @Barefoot84. If my kids become technology addicts, it's all our fault! Good luck trying to get my husband to put down his phone, though; any mention of it turns him into a schoolboy. OH YEAH, WELL YOU TOO, YOU GO FIRST, NEENER NEENER.
My UO: I'm trying to watch Gilmore Girls, but am finding all the characters pretty annoying. Still trying to figure out why people love it so much.
@KarmB That's good to hear, I'm only about 5 episodes in Season 1
yea the characters are very cartoony (?) the first season. theyre still trying to find their footing But then again, Its been many moons since I saw it lol. Im rewatching it now though
Great. Damn all of you now I want both a savory and sweet bagel.
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Barefoot84
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Re: UO
Saturday and Sunday mornings were for watching cartoons when I was young. We spent days, from morning till evening, trying to slay dragons on the Nintendo. It wasn't educational content, it was entertaining and that was it.Yet, I can talk, I can write, I suck at sports but my brother excels at them, and I have a nice social circle.
However, I don't remember going to the restaurant with my parents for a family night out and both my parents spending the meal playing with their phones. I don't remember my parents being more interested in a game of Candy Crush than in the people around them, whether it was us or their friends. I never spent breakfast staring at my father while he read on his phone (I'm looking at you H). My father read the paper, but he would share the cartoons with us and still talk with us. During the evenings, my parents would sit on the couch with a glass of wine and talk, or have friends over. There was laughter and conversation. They wouldn't each be sitting at a different computer, stalking the Facebook page of a "friend" they hadn't talked to in years. When we did a fun activity, they would participate, instead of spending their time trying to capture the perfect picture of us, so they could post it on FB and try to impress their "friends" with their great parental skills.
Can we please stop blaming our children's use of technology for "ruining" their skills, and look at the parents use of technology?
My UO: I'm trying to watch Gilmore Girls, but am finding all the characters pretty annoying. Still trying to figure out why people love it so much.
chocolate sucks.
Gilmore girls get better in more seasons esp Sookie
Lilah loves my phone and shes pretty smart soooo
Married: 5/21/05 **~** Emery Aylin 6/30/12
BFP#1-11/5/10- Surgery for ectopic pregnancy 11/15/10 BFP#2-11/1/11 Due 7/8/12 Born 6/30/12
Oops we did it again... BFP 03/23/14 Due 12/6/14 Nora Born 11/23/14
an entire thread dedicated to Bagels.
I like. I like a lot.