An Apple a day really does keep parents away! This is a common “family” dinner time scene. Parents on their devices, doing work that i’m sure is important but is it more important that quality time with their children? Then the kids get out their phones because there anyone to talk to and soon enough…
Tag: technology and families
How texting effects conversations, or does it…
This is a great article about how teenagers are learning to be able to make eye contact while typing. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/opinion/sunday/stop-googling-lets-talk.html?_r=0
A fictional story I wrote in 2012 about a family
An apple a day keeps my parents away! It is 2006 and the Kaminski’s are living in rural Russia. “Get in the tub already!” said Mrs. Kaminski as her reluctant 11 year old daughter Olga, gets in the wash basin. The family had to use a wash basin to wash and only changed the water…
Tech and kids
Here is an interesting article that I read on the Moving to Learn website talking about the effects of technology on young children.
An Apple a day keeps my parents away
How the iPhone changed my family. I wrote this in 2011, when I was 10 years old. Chapter 1: It all began with my dad It all started with my dad. When he first bought an iPhone 3 he got lost in the realm of these strange electronic devices that were brand new and…