With these photos, I wish that the photographer had listed/paired grandmas to countries. Food looks yummy though!
Also made me think though of my Great Grandma Nelson and the Swedish foods she’d cook. I miss her.
Blackballed
We live in an odd time. A time where we think about how much our friends like our social media posts. How when they suddenly stop liking them or commenting, we begin to question whether they really are our friends or not.
Can you imagine telling your great grandparents, those that had lived through the Great Depression, about how your friends on social media are suddenly not liking your posts?
“I feel like they are blackballing me, Great Grandma Hall.”
And as we are navigating these choppy social waters, the thought dawns on us that we will have to help our kids through muck like this too. (Pulling the plug on the Internet isn’t the solution either. Let go of the cord!) We have to engage, walk through, and confront these thoughts/situations that pop up. Asking ourselves if perhaps:
- We are spending too much time on social media
- A friend we know through social media isn’t a great influence on us
- Why such such a seemingly petty thing matters
When we get down to the core of the issue, it shouldn’t matter whether someone likes or comments on our posts… and yet it does.
“And Jesus said, love only those who like and comment on your social media musings.” – Not In The Bible
What do you think? I love it when you share your thoughts below in the comments.
From Across the Net – “How it feels to release an indie game in 2019”
Fun to see Nelson on the front page of Polygon.
“I knew that games are built from dreams and tricks, but seeing first-hand how much it hurts a team to not put in a last little detail that might add cohesion to a world because there’s a critical bug elsewhere made me reconsider how I see the rest of the games I play.”
Shadow Parenting
Over the weekend, my next door neighbor stopped by and asked if Wyatt could come over to his house. Tabitha and I know our neighbor pretty well. Wyatt works for him on the occasion. So we said sure, no problem.
Wyatt went over to the neighbors, sat outside on the front porch, and talked for awhile. Time passed, and he soon came home with a bag of books. Turns out our neighbor had wanted to give him a late Christmas gift. No big, right? Right. It was then that I learned that the entire time Wyatt was at the neighbors, he was being guilted/lectured over the way he spends his money.
Now imagine an adult that you know from passing conversations. An adult that pays your child to do random tasks for him. Imagine that adult now being critical to your kid over how he spends the money he earns. Telling him that he needs to be more purposeful with his money; telling Wyatt to quit spending his money on smaller things (like LEGOS, video games, etc.) and save just like his son used to.
Wyatt came home upset. When he told us what had happened, I was upset. You see, my kid takes stuff like that to heart… this isn’t the first time our neighbor has had this talk.
Good intentions aside, you never know where criticism, judgement, or even shadow parenting may occur.
Unexpected Notifications
Before pulling out of the driveway, I paired my phone with the car. No need to drive to church in silence. Plus, the boy likes the new Toby Mac album.
As I went to put my phone down, a notification popped up at the bottom of the screen:
“17 Minutes to Macedonia Baptist Church”
My map program knew where I was going.
I am new to the world of the iPhone. I had no clue that it’s map program has been tracking me for weeks, perhaps even months? But there was something unsettling about the phone knowing where I was going on a Sunday morning. Also makes me wonder what else it knows and has learned about me.
Have you ever had your phone creep you out? Tell me about it in the comments below.
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