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          Of course you worry about the new generation

             You have  your young ones or growing ones in it!  In my case, I have a handful of grandchildren who are raised in a world gone digitally mad.

              They believe they can find the truth about anything on Wikipedia or You Tube videos. You and I are not considered as smart as their devices. The wells of experiences we have had do not peek their curiosity. They prefer interacting with 3D reality rather than with the real you and me.

            What can we do when they barely look up at us when they are on their screens? 

           Personally, I get hurt and insulted.  Sometimes I feel fury which I express by ignoring the child. But the cold treatment disturbs me far much more than it disturbs them in their virtual bubbles. I need to bond with them. 

           They need bonding too, but don't realize how much it could nourish and  and make them feel loved.

                 Now I want to share  what I did to avert disaster in my relationship with one of my grandsons.  For once upon a time, we had been close. Yet  in his home this summer, I saw his preference for screen over me.

         I was jealous. I was angry. I was resentful. Yet as a grandmother in my daughter's home:

          I could not restrict his use of the phone. 

         I could not take away any privileges from him. 

           Perhaps you will agree with me for NOT giving in to my fury and resentment. I did not yank his phone from his hands which I could have done thereby sparking off a battle.

             Unless I approached him from my inner place of light and love and respect, the atmosphere between us would become hateful. He would happily stay tuned into cyberspace.

             Then suddenly an insight lit me . I could reawaken him to the natural world that on occasion he still loved! Because he was a good child at heart Something good would happen to him, to me, to our relationship.

The next day my 15 year old grandson volunteered to leave his Smartphone in the house and to come with us to fish!

        Over the next weeks, we graduated from using worms as bait in the freshwater canals to using squid as bait in the saltwater sea. I was queasy about the squid. My two grandsons, now my buddies cut up the tentacles and threw their lines out into the sea.