Be Present
I was wearing a ‘regular’ watch the other day and my one-year-old tried exhaustively to swipe the watch face, until she finally declared conclusively that it was broken. She is part of what is now called the Swipe Generation. A generation of children who are so digitally connected that they assume everything in their world can be swiped. At one-years-old she can easily navigate her way around an iPhone to open movies or photos or even make a phone call, but will she have the social skills to look someone in the eye and have a conversation? In his viral video, Look Up Gary Turk says “We’re surrounded by children, who since they were born, watch us living like robots, and think it’s the norm.” This resonated with me more than anything else, because even if we recognize that “we’ve become a generation of smart phones and dumb people” our children think that this is normal. That is a frightening thought. The more connected we are, the more disconnected we have be