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Short Little Spans of Attention

By Brenda Knowles|2015-09-22T16:07:20-05:00August 5th, 2011|Categories: Introverts and Highly Sensitive People, Parenting, Popular Posts|Tags: addictive technology, attention spans and technology, introverts and parenting, kids addicted to technology, kids' attention spans, parenting and technology, parenting and television, shortening attention spans, technology's effect on attention spans|

These are not my children. Never too early to start a technology addiction... I can’t reach my kids. And I think I know why. They have the attention spans of minnows. I can’t say that only children have this problem. We adults are just as bad with our iPhones and web browsing. Hell, I [...]

This is me. This is me from the day I was born. For so long I felt misunderstood and rejected, even by the people closest to me, because they could never understand my need for solitude, and I had no idea how to explain it to them. Even now that I know more about Introversion and have a more informed understanding of my hard-wired need for solitude, it’s still very difficult sometimes to help my loved ones understand this profound craving for time and space all to myself. This is one of the best… Read more

Sharon

“I was struggling with my daughter (16 at the time) and our constant fighting. You said something to me that changed my life! You were speaking about your own situation and you said to me “my child could not handle my emotions”. This was a HUGE “lightbulb moment” for me and it forever changed the way I dealt with my emotions when I was around my daughter!

I am happy to say that things have never been better between my soon to be 18 year old daughter and myself! I honestly never thought we would… Read more

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