Things I want to send my kids to show what's caught my attention while reading, watching, listening....
It’s a great psychological truth that if we don’t teach our children how to be alone, they will always be lonely. When they’re always connected, children, adolescents and adults become dependent on the presence of others for validation in the most basic ways. When people move from, “I have a feeling, I want to make a call” to “I want to have a feeling, I need to send a text,” something unfortunate happens to their relations with others. They start to need other people to feel validated and they cannot approach others as full, individual, differentiated people. Rather, other people are used, as what one might think of as part objects — spare parts to support a fragile self.
Alone in the crowd - an interview with Sherry Turkle.
Appreciating solitude… an incredibly valuable lesson. (What taught you that? Staying out in the middle of nowhere during the summers? Moving foreign countries every couple of years? Is becoming a serious reader a cause or a consequence of learning to enjoy being alone at times?)
