March 2, 2017
Interview with Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair, author of the book The Big Disconnect
Mike Carruthers: When children spend too much time texting on their phone that can be a problem and the same thing applies to parents.
Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair: Children are experiencing a kind of profound disconnect from their parents. That they can’t get their parents attention when they need it and that their parents get crabby and cranky when they tell them something that’s actually right. Like; “I’m going to be late for school mommy if you don’t get off your computer.”
Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair, author of the book The Big Disconnect…
When we’re on our computers, doing something, checking emails our capacity for empathy and patience gets a little disengaged.
Parents need to set the example for their children.
There’s been a huge uptake in accidents in emergency rooms of grown-ups and children alike crossing the street while texting and getting hit by a car. We know, out common sense tells us this is nuts to be doing and it just speaks to the power of the machines, of the tools that we abandon commonsense.
There’s something parents often do that can profoundly upset a child and alter the relationship and that is…
When their parents text and drive because all kids know that that is a really dangerous thing to do. So you know kids say to me at all different ages “My parents say they love me but what does it mean to love your kids if you risk their life over a text?”
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