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For years I had derived a large part of my meaning in life from the thin, insistent signals of the web. Now they were gone, and I could see how paltry and lacking in substance they were. But, still, I missed them.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
The plates fall and smash all the time. I’m constantly on the run, grabbing moments to work which I feel I’ve stolen from my children. The school assemblies I missed, the concerts I was late to, the parents’ evenings I had to reorganize are the guilty price I pay: and make no mistake, it’s a price.
Clover Stroud • My Wild and Sleepless Nights: The brave, raw Sunday Times bestselling memoir
In the city of constant stimulation, we had failed to give them the opportunity to develop strong inner lives for those occasions when they would find themselves sitting through the second act of The Nutcracker.
Ann Patchett • The Dutch House: A Read with Jenna Pick
The intrusion of smartphones and social media are not the only changes that have deformed childhood. There’s an important backstory, beginning as long ago as the 1980s, when we started systematically depriving children and adolescents of freedom, unsupervised play, responsibility, and opportunities for risk taking, all of which promote competence,
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
middle parenting years—elementary school mostly—when parents feel immense pressure to prepare their children for an increasingly competitive world, thereby turning afternoons and weekends into a long procession of extracurricular activities.
Jennifer Senior • All Joy and No Fun
Living 24/6 feels like magic, and here’s why: it seems to defy the laws of physics, as it both slows down time and gives us more of it.
Tiffany Shlain • 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week
People suffering from time deprivation or information overload may not be addicted or driven or out of touch with the higher purpose of life. They may be tied to their meetings and computers against their will—by the need to hold on to a job. Individualized Sabbatarianism may change life for the lucky few, but it won’t help the many.
Judith Shulevitz • The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale
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