I sat people-watching in Seattle's Best and chanced upon a rare sight of a dad and his eldest son playing chess. It would have warmed my heart but when I looked around their table I saw something not uncommon to today's modern family. The mother was texting on her Blackberry, the younger son playing on his PSP, and the daughter tapping away on her iPod. Oh and did I mention? The father and son were playing chess on an iPad. It was a typical cozy family dinner.
Our tech-savvy generation could learn a little from that family. Technology doesn't always mean you create barriers against face-to-face interaction. It just depends how you use it. A mother on her phone as opposed to one asking about her kids' day at school shows how technology lessens the value of relationships. But a father teaching his son chess is a scene straight from Good Parenting. And maybe using that iPad was the only way that the dad would ever have gotten his son interested in learning an old game like chess. Technology not only bridged a relationship but it bridged an age divide and thus allowed two people to create a memory they could both look back on in tenderness.
Maricris L. Real
Entry No. 13
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