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For Families Today, Technology Is Morning’s First Priority August 10, 2009

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How to get a handle on this? Bueller?

Weekday mornings have long been frenetic, disjointed affairs. Now families that used to fight over the shower or the newspaper tussle over access to the lone household computer — or about whether they should be using gadgets at all, instead of communicating with one another.

“They used to have blankies; now they have phones, which even have their own umbilical cord right to the charger,” said Liz Perle, a mother in San Francisco who laments the early-morning technology immersion of her two teenage children. “If their beds were far from the power outlets, they would probably sleep on the floor.”

For Families Today, Technology Is Morning’s First Priority – NYTimes.com.

 

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