Food for thought

We went on a field trip today for Italian Club to the International Rooms at Pitt and to this amazing authentic Italian restaurant. While we waited for our food my friends and I had a really intense conversation about why kids today are so very different from ourselves, and about how socially lacking they are. 

     Most parents today are lazy. When they need to distract their kids they want a quick distraction that will keep the kid entertained for as long as possible. So rather than giving them a coloring book or paper and pencils, they give them an iPad, iPhone, etc. it's ridiculous. Your child has no concept of self entertainment. Most elementary kids and even younger know how to operate and iPhone. Most middle schoolers don't even have real conversations. They text, which is fine, I text to, but I know how to have a real face to face conversation too, unlike them. They have minimal to no social skills and its awful. For them, their phones are WAY of life, to us, phones are an ACCESSORY to life. We don't need them like the younger generation does, but we have them and they're convenient. I'm not against kids having and utilizing technology, but sometimes the parent or guardian needs to step in and say enough, go outside, do something other than sit there on your phone/computer/tablet. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen as often as it needs to.