When implementing these practices, keep in mind that you can start whenever you want to. As a matter of fact, start as soon as possible. You do not need to wait for Monday, the end of the month or Jan. 1 to make a difference in your life.
I know plenty of toddlers — a consequence of my work with BU’s Jumpstart program — who do not know the alphabet or how to spell their names, but are acutely adept at navigating an iPad.
We have entered a new age and we need to face its reality — we cannot and will not live without our phones. They are the ultimate source of our entertainment, whether through texts, social media or more traditional entertainment like streaming platforms.
I open my settings app to Screen Time. four hours and two minutes, it reads. Yet as I count the individual app usage — one hour and 12 minutes on Messages, 36 minutes on Instagram, 27 minutes on Safari, 10 minutes on Gmail — I see that something does not add up … literally.
On the night of Dec. 21, 2023, I conducted my usual routine. I took a shower, brushed my teeth, did my skincare, cried hysterically and crawled into bed to watch TikToks until my eyes burned from exhaustion, or what some call “winding down.” That was until I remembered what my dad told me earlier that day about taking some time off of social media.
The technologically reliant characters in the 2008 movie WALL-E may come to reflect reality rather than remaining the comical dramatizations they once were.
