{"id":71,"date":"2010-06-14T00:17:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T07:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2010-06-14T00:17:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T07:17:37","slug":"tech-addicted-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/tech-addicted-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech-addicted parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/distracted_mom.png\"><br \/>\n(Photo credit: CBS)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/06\/13\/tech-addicted-parents-may_n_608943.html>The Huffington Post<\/a> for bringing to my attention a recent <a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/10\/garden\/10childtech.html><i>New York Times<\/i> article<\/a> and <a href=http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/daytime\/the_early_show\/video\/?pid=Yx_w1mu_32RjjDO3JXB_lgYxXH_43qGu>CBS segment<\/a> on the problems of tech-addicted parents who pay more attention to their BlackBerrys or their iPhones than to their babies. Somehow we don&#8217;t seem to notice or are more forgiving when adults do that to each other, but when we do it to our kids, look out! If parents don&#8217;t unplug from gadgets which disrupt quality time with their children, we will see a new generation of kids with behavior problems associated with neglect. Envision a new parallel program to Al-Anon: Tech-Anon, for adult children of parents who were iPhone addicts.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next? CrackBerry babies?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" width=200 src=\"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/crackberry_baby.jpg\"><br \/>(I could not find the original source of this photo which is reproduced all over the Internet.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo credit: CBS) Thanks to The Huffington Post for bringing to my attention a recent New York Times article and CBS segment on the problems of tech-addicted parents who pay more attention to their BlackBerrys or their iPhones than to their babies. Somehow we don&#8217;t seem to notice or are more forgiving when adults do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}