I don’t comment often enough on your blog posts. But I read them. And I love them. You make the internet a better place. <3

#6 really got me…

My husband and I went out to dinner the other night. There was a family of four at a table near us. The kids were about 6 and 4. Unfortunately, the parents spent the entire time on their phones while their kids played with and ate their food. No conversation beyond the ordering process. It made me so sad. If I’d thought it would be accepted, I would have loved to have those kids come sit with my husband and me so we could play grandparents for a while. I would have loved to talk with those kids and find out all about what they liked. Give them some attention and show them they are more important than a phone.

Add in to all of that, when I take my walks around the local park, too many parents with their kids are busy on their phone then too. Instead of playing or talking to their kids, they sit on a bench and talk to someone else on their phones. (We’re not talking business calls, we’re talking gossip with friends since they are usually loud enough that I can hear them.)

We used to love taking our kids out to eat and talking with them. We still do at their ages of 30 and 28 now. It’s another reason we always had a family dinner when we were at home during the week. (And yes I was a working mom at the time. At one point, I was in grad school along with working, yet we managed to sit as a family for dinner at minimum 5 days a week.)

The private IG account idea is totally counter-intuitive to me. When people send me posts from private accounts, I usually hesitate to request to follow the account because I have no idea if this is a big meme account or if I’m going to look like some creeper trying to follow a regular person’s Instagram life. Perhaps I’m just overly-sensitive, because I am constantly dismissing requests from strangers to follow MY personal account.