Your spouse, fiancé, or significant other is on his/her phone while you’re together. YOU become annoyed. You have three options: You can call him/ her out on the spot, and perhaps arouse the elephant in the room. You can choose to not say anything at all, stay annoyed, and take it out on him/ her…
His comment caught me off-guard. Since I was speaking at a youth conference about teens and technology, I figured the dad waiting to speak with me wanted to talk about his crazy texting teenager. But he didn’t come to talk about his daughter. He came to talk about his wife. You see, this man was…
I have a love-hate relationship with technology. I’m a traditionalist. I majored in English and read old, “boring” literature. I’m one of those hypocrites who posts things on social media that mock social media. Despite that, much of my day-to-day life utilizes technology – including writing this article. If you’re reading this, you’re doing so…
Heeding my own advice about technology as a distraction, this weekend we unplugged the TV that has been in our bedroom since the birth of our 4th child late last year. Our original reason for the TV in the room, which was against our better judgement, was to give Stephanie something to do while she…
There are a number of articles that have been published digging into how the social fabric of our culture is changing based on social media. The Atlantic published an article called “Is Facebook Making us Lonely?,” which is a long read but very challenging to our understanding about the impact of technology and social media. Smart phones,…
