My parents enjoyed talking to their children. We were not seen as a distraction. But I’m sure we were more than annoying from time to time. There was a period of what seemed like forever when Ellie and Dara did nothing but argue. Dara’s voice especially could get very high when agitated. When I was old enough they would gang up on me. But from what I remember I always held my own. I was born with the ability to laugh at people who tried to insult me. This is almost never the reaction people hope for. Eventually Ria and I reached the stage where we argued a lot but our arguments were always silent so they never had any effect on whoever was driving.
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Oh, boy, I couldn't agree with you more. The best part of a long drive is gazing out the window at the changing countryside. I used to wonder about the people who lived in the little towns we passed through, and I would gaze at the scenery and daydream about all sorts of things -- flights of fancy.
I think kids brains are being re-wired by electronic gadgets. A lot of kids are unable to read a whole book, because their brains are hard-wired to read in "bytes". Parents are using electronic gadgets as babysitters, rather than spending time with them. The children will be lost forever.
Great post. The gadget-as-babysitter phenomenon is sad.
Prison living Is a big problem take food, we used to prepare a good breakfast then it went to cornflakes thanks to marketing and "cool fast living" and then it has become too much like hard work to pour the milk in so we get cereal bars now. We are surrounded by the illusion of real advances in communication through face book, texts, online gaming etc,community a click away without and at times resenting real face to face interaction. This is causing mass depression and anxiety social phobias and eating disorders. We need each other, we need to see each other feel a hug etc, we have become our own lab rats. Look at kids so many gizmo's yet they are miserable spoiled unhappy repressed little people that desperately have been born into a mass media drug induced stupor, they are overdosing in apathy because the rewards of what you put in, have been taken away by easy sugary avatar synthetic click point trophy awarded tasks that satisfy short term but offer nothing long term. Like a quick hit from a brightly lit drug. Due to the propaganda of fear, the streets are ghost towns, it snows yet they stay indoors. Parents if they want their kids to "play" have to PAY for classes have to pay for kids to get together. What happened to a kid playing with a stick in a hole, just playing absentmindedly? Gone. We are all being bred to put in less and become more selfish, that is why kids are in the back of cars with TV etc. Parents just want to get the task done whilst missing the point. If life is a journey, if we should smell the flowers while we can I’m afraid it will be virtually through an Ipad. Sunday trading has caused families to separate instead of getting together. Every Sunday should be like xmas day. We are human “beings” this is being replaced by virtual and virtual means “not real” nearly. Why give away what’s real for plastic fake old in a year shiny valueless trinkets? This has happened before, and the natives didn’t do well out of it....someone else did.
That too.
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