Saturday, September 10, 2016

A HABIT WORTH KICKING!

It's a no-brainer to know that the cell phone has advanced our world of communication technology, which among its many purposes are made for emergency situations, for our music pleasure, to download movies and video games, easy access to the internet, and the list goes on and on.  Unfortunately the downfall of using the cell phone is.....We Cannot Keep Our Children Off Of Them!!  They use them during driving, dinner-time, going to the restroom, work-time, church sessions and even in the classroom if they can get away with it.  So what are we showing our next generation...I realized that it seems nearly impossible to stop this addiction from continuing, but I personally feel that this fiasco is totally out of control.  So what can we do about it? Should we start balancing our child's life by monitoring their usage obsession, which includes ourselves? (yea..I've seen you on Facebook)
I've heard stories of families, who are doing their part in combating this serious issue, for example,  collecting cell phones from family members during dinner time and getting their couch potato kids involved in local sports and outdoor activities, but this on-going dilemma also needs out-of-home attention like from our local law enforcement by giving very expensive fines to cell phone drivers, and from our workplaces where a job-candidate is asked to watch a short training film on policies against cell phone usage while working, which also includes internet surfing, and then afterwards follow up by making them sign a contract before being consider for hire, where progressive deductions are made to their payroll checks every time they are seen conducting non-work related business on their cellphone and I'm sure there are other great ideas out there if we all put our heads together, but something has to be done!  Before we have a drastic increase in the death tolls of future doctors, scientists, engineers and school teachers due to cell phone driving accidents, but then again human technology is consistently changing and quickly advancing day-by-day where cars will drive by themselves and man-like cyborgs will replace human labor...let's just hope many human lives are not sacrificed to get there!

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