Module 8 Blog Post
This week there was a lot of information to take in. I definitely fixated on the texting and driving aspects. After reading the content, I had a very serious conversation with my kids about it. The video I shared in the Facebook group really hit home with me. Although the videos are exaggerated versions which make them seem less real, the situations COULD happen. In real life, you don't get a redo or mulligan. In the video the mom swerved three times before it became her last. Her kids were all asking her to stop and she continued. Never do I ever want my kids to be in a situation where that could be them--either them as the driver or as the passenger. Eyes wide open now. Eyes wide open. A lot of the focus was on kids and their screentime. My kids grew up at the beginning of this era. Although devices and the internet were much more prominent in their time than mine, it was never a huge problem with them growing up although we had our fair share of arguments about social media ov