IPODS AND THE LIKE

She woke up in the morning and looked around the room. The others had been awake long before her but there was no sound. Each person was totally engrossed in their ipod.


Granted it was morning, and perhaps everyone was tired, but this isn't the first time she has commented on it. 


There have been numerous times that she has attended gatherings only to find kids using their ipod more then engaging person to person with others.


She finds it most annoying and wonders why ?  
She loves her ipod too, but she loves people more.


She wants to be with people and talk and share and have fun. . .person to person.  
Why is everyone so separate. . .  doing their own thing. . . with their ipods?


I don't know. Do you?
Is time with their ipods limited or controlled at home? 
If a person is given free rein when to use something it's just another tool to use when they want or need to. 


But if their time with it is limited or controlled, they will focus on it, perhaps obsessing over it, because they don't know when they will have unlimited time again.. . that freedom.


Technology is terrific and we all love it but my teens would rather have real life conversation and interaction when they get together with others.


Now that they are teens, each day I see more and more benefits from a life lived with freedom and choices. . .  and that includes no limits or controls on any technology they use.