TECHNOLOGICAL DEPENDENCY

     Having our kids watch television while driving in the car is convenient in the sense that they are distracted and quiet and do not pester us with questions or conversation. But what they are not learning is how to look out the window at the wonderful and curious world that is passing by... the other cars and people and stores and streets and houses and fields and signs. They are not learning to be observant and aware. Instead, we are teaching them technological dependency. Is that the best that we can do?

I engage with my children during car rides. We see things and share our observations and appreciate the world around us.