LET’S BEGIN
If you harbor vague concerns about your (and your children’s) growing digital dependence, I’m right there with you.
If you fear that the issue of device devotion is so complicated you can’t get a firm grasp on it, I’m with you.
If it all seems just too… inevitable and insurmountable, yep, I’m there as well.
But like a squirrel on a mission, I’ve been stashing away lot of good stuff on digital dependence and now I think it’s time to just dive in — into the foggy, messy fray, without any real plan, outline or idea of how this blog series will look. So here goes.
The only plan-ish part is that I’m committing to post something every Wednesday on some aspect of this topic. I’ll look at different angles on the role(s) that our devices play in our lives, how they help, and how they may be hurting.
And probably much more important, how we can develop mastery over our technology so it can do what it was designed to do: to make our lives easier and richer!
The Rub
Here’s the conundrum, particularly for the Parenting for Peace objective of fostering vibrant social intelligence in ourselves and our coming generations: (more…)
