Posted on 03/22/2015 7:01:34 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
No, smartphones are tools. It is the parents who are messing up the kids by using smartphones as babysitters and entertainment 24/7.
last week I was in a restaurant and sisters at the adjacent table were texting each other although face to face across their table
LOL! Well, in trouble or injured in some manner. Other than that, I think I made it okay. Of course that was a long time ago. Loooongggg!
Watch an MTV produced movie, you’ll have a seizure.
I got sick a few times. If you were throwing up or had a high fever, the nurse would call your mother.
I was at the gym recently, and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” was on a television near me. It was filmed in about 3-second segments.
I don’t wear my glasses at the gym, so figuring out what I’m seeing on the screen helps to pass the time on the elliptical trainer.
It's not totally illogical though. Because the middle class economy has been battered so thoroughly, there are a fair number of parents who feel compelled to get their kids into top line colleges thinking this will perhaps give them a shot at becoming Masters of the Universe. Or perhaps sports superstars.
A lot of new garbage is just like that. All they need now is to add some JJ Abrahms lens flares...
I needed to get my phone-less freshman a message several times last year concerning after school schedule changes and such. When I called the office to ask them to get the message to him, there would be much fumbling and stuttering about how that should be accomplished. After one such request, the receptionist told me that they really don’t have a good way to get a message to a student and doesn’t my son have a phone? I replied simply, “No”. I thought this was a rather ridiculous question with a rather obvious answer and didn’t feel the need to justify my reasons to her.
So, it seems that there is no longer a mechanism for parents to communicate without providing a radiation generating device for our children to hold up to their still developing heads. Luckily, my kid is responsible and I gave him a pay as you go flip phone for emergencies which he keeps off in his pocket because it is very practical to have, but this mindless rush to dismantle other means of communication is disturbing.
The camera-swooping in the action shows my teenagers watch makes me nauseous.
More like morally depraved, not mentally ill . . .
That is pretty shocking because it doesn't seem that complicated. Just walk a note over to the child's teacher - or text her. How hard can that be?
At my daughter’s school this year all the “material” for their classes was on an iPad. And they were emailing assignments all night. I like being on the internet, and some things are quicker on the internet, but it has added to the mass confusion. I would much rather read a regular book.
You went to school for 52 years? (haha just kidding)
well you don’t get eavesdropped on and you don’t have to holler
It sounds like the office staff likes sitting around doing nothing.
That’s what I thought, too. When did such a simple thing as human communication become so overly complicated?
Probably playing on their iphones.
My nephew was doing demolition work, and he found one of these:
He brought it home and gave it to his nephew, who is about 5, and said, "here's a phone to play with!"
The 5 year old (who is a bit of a spoiled brat to start with) immediately burst into tears. His idea of a phone is an iPhone 6.
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