Last blog post I discussed living in the moment, which is a true practice. Then I thought how in the moment are people today when most are ruled by technology. People are always on their phones, checking social media, emails, or texting. One day I went to the doctors and there were six people in the waiting room with me. Every single person, except for me, were on their phones! What ever happened to reading a magazine, a book, or just sitting there in your own thoughts?
Parents tend to complain their children are on the phone too much, but what kind of example are you being? Most parents today are on their phones much more than their children, talking, texting and on social media. Parents, don't forget you are your child's role model. They are watching what you do, absorbing it, and doing the same thing... they learn from you. Therefore, parents should practice new behaviors firstly for themselves to learn and then for their children to learn.
I have a few challenges for you in mind, and over the next few weeks I will present one each week.
This Weeks Challenge:
Let's start the challenges off with an interesting experiment. Take notice by recording on a pad, how often in one day you are watching TV, texting, on your phone, or posting on Facebook or any other social media. Also record how often your children are on these devices daily. Count up those hours and compare them to how many hours there are in a day... Do this for the week and see how many hours you have daily and what your weekly hours total is as well. You may be very surprised to find just how often you are on your devices and away from other things happening in life that do not involve technology.
And, also watch this video on you tube:
Good Luck and I will have another challenge for you next week.!
