Comments on: Now and then

By: Leigh Chandler

Leigh Chandler — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:00:33 +0000

Your posts are always so interesting! This is a tough one. Yes, we managed to grow up without all of the technology of today and with so much more freedom, in my opinion. I was much more scared for my own children, so they were never far from my sight and they both had cell phones at an early age so I could reach them at any time. Now, I worry that they are too addicted to their phones and texting and might not ever have the kind of peaceful “alone time” that we FOF’s had. It is such a catch 22, as they say.

By: Geri

Geri — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:39:11 +0000

Hi Marji,

That pleases me. Thank you dear.

Fondly,
Geri

By: Geri

Geri — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:38:28 +0000

Hi Preppy,

You may have both. My son spent his junior year in Barcelona (19990-2000). He didn’t have a cell phone yet, but the Europeans were addicts already (their land lines are too expensive).

Geri

By: Geri

Geri — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:35:44 +0000

I remember when my grandmother shared a phone number with a neighbor in the early fifties. It was called a Party Line. You’d pick up the phone and there was a conversation going on so you had to wait till they finished. It was hysterical.

Geri

By: Maureen@IslandRoar

Maureen@IslandRoar — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:09:20 +0000

Now. No contest.

By: Marjip

Marjip — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:21:47 +0000

Geri-it’s so interesting to read your musings. You’re a woman dear to my heart. You seem to be writing about so much of what I’m thinking. You have a unique way of expressing those thoughts-appreciate it.

By: Preppy 101

Preppy 101 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:41:21 +0000

Gosh this is a great post! May I have both?
When I was teaching, we teachers did discuss in great length and with great concern about the fact that the youth of today will never know solitude. No matter where they are they can be texting, FBing, gchatting, iChatting, etc. I personally think there is something to be said for alone time. Rather sad that they may never know how to be alone — and content.

I love being away from technologically at times, but also love being able to text, call my children anytime at all. It is also very comforting to know that when they travel, etc. they have a phone in case of emergency. That being said, our parents certainly raised us without it and survived. {In fact I survived it – My own son didn’t have a cell phone until college days!}

By: LPC

LPC — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:18:39 +0000

On the other hand, my 19-year old son said today something like, “I imagine a phone free life would be very nice.” Nostalgia for what you never knew:).