Having A Social Experience For Real
August 5, 2010 by Deborah Calla
Filed under Blog
My sister and nieces are visiting from Italy. My nieces, twins, are fifteen and hooked up on all the gadgets teens love.
I had dinner with them at their rented apartment tonight. But after dinner as if we all had rehearsed this many times we all went to our computers. I stayed on for another hour and then said goodbye. The girls were surprised I was leaving so early but I pointed out we all had been on our computers.
Driving home I thought of my dad always complaining that when we are all visiting him we spend a lot of time on our computers. He and my mom make a point to interrupt me. They feel we are not connecting.
When I got home, a friend had sent me an article he had seen on a site, http://charactercounts.org/chron/2010/06/16/the-empathy-deficit/ he thought I would enjoy reading.