Starting the Conversation about Smartphone Addiction with Your Children
We don’t have all the answers, but maybe we can start asking the right questions
My twelve-year-old son was actually talking on the phone.
For longer than one minute, and not to ask a gaming- or pc-related question to one of his uncles. Instead, he was having a relaxed and lightly giddy conversation with one of my closest and best friends. I took this shot with my son’s own phone, I thought it was an interesting moment.
And it reminded me.
I was visiting another friend the other day — one of these special people who, when you self-publish a book, takes the time and effort to order one for themselves. Awesome.
He introduced me to his kids — who I was meeting for the first time — as the writer of the book he had recently gotten, and said to his oldest daughter (I think she’s 9):
“I think this might actually be an interesting book for you as well; it’s about screen-time and how much time we spend on digital devices.”
This reminded me heavily of a conversation I had had with people in a workshop I had led back at a congress in…
