who is @galenkp to you?

hey i remember you tip some engage token to me can you tell me were to earn more

Now or never :)

Excellent article.

888 words specially adjusted?

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To give up the phone when spending time with a loved one is a must. I think it shows maturity and self control. Too many people are hooked on their phones just like drug addicts. They miss the whole point of time spent together: closeness, joy, emotion. It's valuable nowadays to meet someone willing to give up those plastic bricks for genuine connection. Parents trully need that because kids deserve all the quality time in the world. I often think how would it be to just take 1 to 2 weeks off without the phone and just enjoy the simplicity of human connection, of sincere dialogue, of interesting witty conversations. We people need more of that.

In the last two or three years, I have really disconnected myself from my phone. Especially after deleting all my social media accounts.

Now, I only need my phone for making calls, or checking something. Otherwise, I don't even see my phone for half the day.

Seems really different from the time 3-4 years ago, when I was buried in my phone. Spending all my evening watching videos on facebook. Or scrolling on instagram. Lol.


I have a really good connection like that with my nephew. He is 10 now. I miss those days when he was really small and cute.

Now, even though he is just 10, I feel he is all grown up now. Understands a lot more than kids of his age do. Whenever we talk, or meet, he talks about his days, what he is doing in sports, or his school etc. As opposed to kids of his age in my family who are spending all their time in the last 6 months playing games on their phones/tablets.

Lol, I have an older nephew of 16, he barely talks with me once or twice in a week. He spends all his day reading manga, watching anime etc.

Kids are really different these days.

How big is Smallsteps and how beautiful! God bless her. I think this publication should be read by many parents. Some of them are not aware of it: that children grow up quickly and what they will remember from their childhood is the little or much time they had with their parents, as you remember it now. Today's parents seek to fill their children with things, especially technology, not realizing that time is the best gift they can give.  Nice family Sunday for you, @tarazkp

This is such a heart rending loving post. So glad that you see the time spent with Smallsteps not as a sacrifice offered from your busy schedule, or as just another job. 
Made we regret my prolonged absences from my own ones during their early years, even though I had to work hard to keep a roof over our our heads.

I hope that many parents read this post.

Btw. I don't have a phone lol, as my wife handles that side of the marriage :)

Maybe they've literally spent all day playing or doing stuff with the kids around all the other nonsense that apparently desperately needs to be done to prove you're a responsible adult and are taking a quick breather to scroll through their feeds while the kids are happily preoccupied in the new environment and just don't really feel like answering the fifty millionth call for attention just in the last hour or so right then and are probably well aware that they're risking other people judging them for not wanting to spend every waking second on their kids XD

Staying away from your cellphone or computer for a few hours is something we all should do regularly to realize there is life beyond connectivity. I agree with you it is sad to see parents in the park with their kids requesting their attention and they just keeping their eyes on the screen.
It is great to have access to everything we have online right now but balance is key and too many young kids do not realize how important is to have a social life offline to keep balanced.

I know a lot of parents who can't spend time with their kids because of their phone.

You made wisely choices : spending time with your daughter...Actually i will do it with my daughter too she is too small for coffee now :) 

Leaving phone behind is a great thing nowadays.Sometimes i read in İnstagram real richness signs are having free time and wealth.I can add this list leaving phone behind :) It is really hard thing for me.

And choosing MTF instead of real wood is a logical decision...

And these behaviours that you talk about is the signs of being a teenager. Children grow up and we all are getting old. I wish the concept of time behaves differently but i know it doesn't my friend...

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I've learned to enjoy special moments without my phone. My only sadness is when I don't take pictures to remember those moments, but I guess having them in my heart means more than losing those few seconds trying to get the right angle. It's a different kind of feel all together.