Hey ,At some point this fear surfaces for every parent:Whatever the arguments... my child lives in the real world. If I say no, I'm isolating them. The social cost will be too high.I want to take that concern seriously, because it's not irrational, a...
🐰 Down The Rabbit Hole 🕳️“To McGilchrist, the Western way of seeing—a way of seeing that was always going to give birth to something like the Machine—is rooted in the brain itself, and our very particular way of relating to the world can be seen, fr...
Hi ,There are a few things that stop parents from acting on what they already know is right.I want to name two of them honestly.“What will other parents think?”Most parents feel this one. Few say it out loud... so let me say it plainly.You're not jus...
Hi ,Most arguments for delaying your child's phone focus on what you're protecting them from.The anxiety. The addiction. The inappropriate content.Those concerns are real ... but they're not, perhaps, the most important reason to wait.Here's the...
Hey ,You've probably been thinking about this question for months.Your child is getting older. Their friends are starting to get phones. And you feel this quiet pressure building...as if the decision is being made for you whether you're ready or not....
🐰 Down The Rabbit Hole 🕳️"In an age of artificial intelligence, the scarce resource is human depth: attention, memory, patience, sustained effort. These are precisely the capacities that early smartphone adoption destroys."~ Dr. Herman Middleton----...
🐰 Down The Rabbit Hole 🕳️“The antidote to this is to dig down to those foundations and begin the work of repair. We are going to have to learn to be adults again; to get our feet back on the ground, to rebuild families and communities, to learn agai...
🐰 Down The Rabbit Hole 🕳️ “If we can see what it [the Machine] is, we have a duty to speak the words to those who do not yet see, all the while struggling to remain human.”~ Paul Kingsnorth, Against The Machine, p. 317------------------------------...
🐰 Down The Rabbit Hole 🕳️“This, in practical terms is, the slow, necessary, sometimes boring work to which I suspect people in our place and time are being called: to build new things out on the margins. Not to exhaust our souls engaging in a daily...