Or not.
I am sitting in the breakfast area of a Hampton Inn. My wife loves the amenities. They do a great, full breakfast. My kids are grown and gone. My wife is enjoying cable TV in the room. I am drinking coffee, eating bacon, writing and posting. Out of the corner of my eye I saw two small round faces intent on something behind me. I did not need to turn around to see that the TV was on. We see this every day.
It is a national disease. It is one of the reasons the kids in our country are losing their cutting edge.
The problem was not watching TV. Let me add three things. The father was sitting with them staring at the same screen. The volume was totally down. They were watching a cartoon called Spongebob Squarepants.
Put it together. A father is traveling with his two little girls. They are at breakfast in a strange town. All they can do is stare at a TV screen that they cannot hear. Whatever happened to parent/child communication? Did it ever exist in this family? Will this father be saying, “Where did I go wrong?” in a few years.
I could tell him now.
Talk to your kids. Turn off the TV. Do it while there is time.
homo unius libri
Sad.
ReplyDeleteAnd too frequent.
DeleteGrace and peace.