I DO NOT however, love preschoolers throwing tantrums over wanting to play on my phone. I do not love children fighting over the tv "I WANT TO WATCH SCOOBY DOO" "NOOOOO... I WATCH THOMAS!!!".... I do not love my husband oblivious to the family because he is absorbed in his game of Civilization on his phone.
I have yet to figure out a balance with all this lovely
I think back on my childhood, I didn't get my first video game until I was in 7th grade, and even then it was only tetris for our computer. I didn't have cable, netflix, game consoles, first cell phone was a clunker when I went off to college. My kids are better at video games than I am and they are only 3.5 and nearly 2! Of course, I has about 1/5 of the toys my kids have too.
Right now my daughter is watching tv, my son is reading his books, and my husband is practicing. I am blogging. Should I turn off the computer and tv and be a more "attentive" mother? The guilt-o-meter rises by the minute every time I get on the computer. Yet I keep doing it. I wonder if every mother judges themselves like I do. Constantly wondering how my mother got by without all this, how she got the house clean, children happy, family fed, and kept her sense of self without the aide of a million gadgets.
How do you all keep control of the
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Give in! Welcome the technology as our new overlord. "We can't beat the machines, the best we can do is hope to integrate with them smoothly." ~ Michio Kaku, NYU Theoretical Physicist.
my kids would say "YESSSSS!" But I am running around screaming "NOOOOO!
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Also having a bit of a Scooby Doo overload... I would really be ok if my Netflix stopped working today.
It's crazy how much it is a part of our children's lives compared to when we were kids.
I'm trying to keep somewhat of a balance...but it's hard. Right now, my kindergartener is staring at me b/c he wants on here to go play a game. I didn't even have a computer until college!
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