What message are you sending to the next generations?
Let me share a quote with you and see if it affects you the way it did me.
I heard a quote over the weekend that passed through my ears and then sat like an elephant on my heart. It’s about the next generation and it couldn’t be more relevant. And in some weird way, it all ties to something really vulnerable I wrote earlier this week.
My wife and I have been thinking about our children even more than usual lately. We’ve been considering a school move, which we’ve ultimately decided against; ever since my wife’s health started declining we’ve noticed how much more time the kids have wanted to spend with us; and we’re staring at the pre-teen years with our daughter. All those things, among others, have contributed to a general weightiness to parenting lately.
So when, while listening to the radio, someone spouted off a deep parenting quote, it hit… hard.
The quote comes from a man named Neil Postman. He’s written some incredible books on culture, and he was banging the drum of technology addiction in the 80s before we even had the technology we have today. He saw it coming, with “it” being the issues we’re having with quite literally bowing our heads and worshiping at the altars of our devices.1
Here’s his quote that upended my heart:
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