REAL LIVING

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I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY
Warning! Digital media is ruining our people! I will be specific.

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Situations observed:
1.) 2 brothers fighting as they get on the bus from school to go home, "I get the computer!" "No, it's my game, I get to go first".
2.) Where are all the children? 1995 there were 30 kids on our street playing kickball, riding big wheels and swinging on our front porch. When we moved in 2009-0 kids.
3.) 2 teenagers standing right next to each other holding their cell phones and laughing. They were texting each other!
4.) Question posed to elementary students- "How was your vacation?" "Did you go outside?" Answer- "No I didn't go outside, I was playing my DS all vacation."
5.) Husband playing game late into night while wife goes to bed alone.
6.) Families get together. Women talk. Men play. Children?

A devastating social disease is happening right now!
Be Aware! Be warned!
Look at yourself, your spouse and your children and take the necessary precautions.
Smashing of gadgets SHOULD be considered!

I have 7 sons and 3 grandsons. With my decades of experience with male children I am qualified to be especially concerned for our male gender.

Statistics on boys:
30% more likely than girls to drop or flunk out of school. In Canada, 5 boys drop out for every 3 girls.
Girls outperform boys at all levels from elementary to graduate school.
Boys less likely to get BA's (44%vs.56%) and graduate degrees (45% vs. 55%)
Make up 2/3 of special ed classes
5X's more likely to have ADHD

On our trip to Utah this last Christmas I was amazed by the age of children being entertained by gadgets in the airport. 2 and 3 year olds (not to mention all the teenagers and adults) were not looking out the windows and watching the planes, talking to the people sitting right next to them, but instead consumed by some ignorant game.

Digital Distraction Devices

Distraction from what? LIFE --distracted from REAL life. Seeing, feeling, discovering, touching, experiencing, hearing, smelling, exercising, solving problems, physical--- LIFE.