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Marie5656

Marie5656

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I fell right at home here. While I really enjoy Facebook, I feel that forums like this are almost becoming lost in the wake of quick response social media. This reminds me of the forums I belong to when I first stared becoming social here abouts.
In reading many discussions here, especially around the election, I like how people are so well spoken, and intelligent in their thoughts and responses to others. I am now going to revert to something I swore I would never start a sentence with. Kids these days just do not get the enjoyment of just sitting around having a conversation. Granted our conversations are more global than when we were kids, and on a computer, but it is nice to have like minded, or at least similar minded folks to chat with.
 

Glad you are enjoying it here, Marie. I enjoy this as well. Love FB, but it's a different kind of communication than here - shorter exchanges. The political discussions will decrease substantially after the election results die down.

It's easy to look around and see families or friends out at dinner and everybody has their face in their phone. I've been guilty of that depending on who I'm with. But with certain friends/family I keep the phone in my pocket as it really is rude to look at your phone when someone is trying to have a conversation with you.
 
Good point. We here are of the generation that has a footing on both sides of the technological fence. We grew up knowing only face to face communication, or via snail mail or land line phone. I have seen younger people who, it seems, will let go of their phones when it is pried from their cold, dead hands. I enjoy my computer time, but miss the face time around the table with family and friends. I grew up in an Italian family where all conversation was around the dinner table and food.
 

We are a lucky generation to remember both. I love having a world of knowledge at my fingertips at all times, as well as connection to family and friends in a flash especially since mine are around the world.
 
I know plenty of families that have a "no devices at the dinner table" rule, and it works very well for creating good conversation. I feel parents need to set the examples and boundaries, but I don't know how many actually do that. The most disturbing trend I've seen is at kids' playgrounds where parents aren't interacting with their kids and instead are on their phones. What could be so important?
 
bluebreezes said:
I know plenty of families that have a "no devices at the dinner table" rule, and it works very well for creating good conversation. I feel parents need to set the examples and boundaries, but I don't know how many actually do that. The most disturbing trend I've seen is at kids' playgrounds where parents aren't interacting with their kids and instead are on their phones. What could be so important?
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Very true. I see this as well. Parents should be playing with the kids, not setting a bad example.
 
I'm with you Marie, when my children were growing up we always had our evening meal at the table. We discussed our day and as they got older, it was nice to have "grown up" discussions about current events. I know so many families that eat in front of the TV and not communicate with each other.
 
Pappy said:
Back in my childhood, I tried to bring comic books to the dinner table. Our IPhones you might say, but mom wouldn't have it. Not at the table young man. Dinner is for eating and discussions.
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My family was the same way. We ate together, talked, and no one left the table till all were finished; if you HAD to leave for some urgent reason (this did NOT include having to get back to whatever you were doing before), you asked to be excused. My parents believed that eating dinner in the evenings together in a civilized manner was important for the family. If the phone rang during dinner, my father either let it ring, or got up and answered it and told the caller we were at dinner and to call back.

The phone thing caused great anguish to teenage girls waiting for their boyfriends to call.
 

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