Huh!!

Here is a new TV idea: Parents’ School. It doesn’t even have to be in India. I wouldn’t just watch it, I’d go.

That's a comment on a parent's negative attitude, from a Guardian review of that programme.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/mar/29/indian-summer-school-review-five-terrible-teens-are-sent-to-indias-equivalent-of-eton

Chances are they've forgotten how to communicate correctly, as there's not a lot of it about these days, is there?

I travelled on our local heritage steam train yesterday. The family on the next table (who would have just paid £42 for a family ticket), spent the whole time with their noses buried in their tablets, playing games. Not a single glance at the scenery, or the carriage. What a way to waste your money, and life!

No, Jane10, you are by no means alone. I'm decidedly frustrated by some of the boys' attitudes. Having said that, I'm also a bit disappointed in that they are sometimes allowed to compromise the rules. Didn't realise what a hard liner I must be. Just feel it somehow insults the other pupils when exceptions are allowed. I follow this with interest. Have pretty much already decided the outcome so wait to see how much egg I end up with on my face!!

petra I agree. However, it's really nice to see some of the boys just blooming in this different regime and even wishing that some classes went on for longer. You can see that their lives will change such a lot for the better. Its a pity about a couple of the others though who just don't seem to get it.

I am a beauty therapist and often have treatments disturbed.
C= client
M=me

I’ll set the scene- C is having a facial, everything quiet and relaxed.
All of a sudden a cacophony of sound emanates from the other side of the too.may.
C- oh , oh dear I thought I’d turned that off, oh dear.
M- do you want to answer it?
C- no , I’m not expecting anything important.
M- sure?
C-yes.
We settle down.
Two mins later.
C- perhaps I’d better check it it MIGHT be important.
So I stop, get up, wash my hands find the b phone and present it to her. Then I go back and rummage through her bag for her glasses.
Now we find that the call was from husband so better just check that a catastrophic happening hasn’t happened.
Well guess what, it hasn’t!
Now I have to wipe the phone and glasses because now they are covered in gunk( otherwise know as nourishing face gel!)
One day I will announce that I’ve run out of time and leave one of them to go home with the face mask on.?
I think I’d better change my name now!

While sitting in the hairdresser's, a woman of about twenty five came into make an appointment for herself bu the girl didn't seem to be able to do this for herself and so her mother booked the appointment for her. Okay, she may have been silent for a lot of other reasons but it really did look like she couldn't handle the responsibility and it did make me think of how texting now seems to be the (only) way of communication.

This morning there was a boy - probably 7 or 8 years old, playing on a phone during Mass. In the mornings I walk against the river of students walking to university, probably 99% are staring at phones or wearing headphones (what do they listen to?). No good talking to them at the bus stop. Sometimes the students are in pairs but staring at phones. Maybe they are texting each other to save breath.

Our church has a sign politely asking people to turn off their phones during services. It seems awful that they even have to ask! When our gr.children stay with us we have a rule 'no technology (phones, tablets or laptops) allowed for more than 2 hours a day' otherwise conversation would be non-existent!

I have a friend who would constantly ignore me during coffee dates to chat to others on the phone until one day in desperation I just got up and left. After an honest discussion about it she stopped doing that but I could tell it was just killing her not to pick up the phone if it rang. It was always inevitably her adult kids with some petty drama anyhow.There would not have been any issue from me if it was something that needed immediate attention

Just had my son and his family over Easter. They live abroad so rarely see them. He spent all his time staring at his phone. Was pretty cross but I said nothing.

Your post made me laugh, ReadyMeals, because my DH has an old Nokia phone, which only does calls and texts. He often doesn't have it with him, or it's not switched on. If we communicated by text at home, it would take hours as he's a very slow texter as well.