I recently viewed the documentary “Screenagers” by Dr. Delaney Rustun at Running River School (1370 Park Circle, Lafayette CO) and participated in a group discussion afterwards.
If you haven’t seen this documentary, I highly recommend it!
(To find a location for a screening go to Screenagersmovie.com and click on “Find a Screening”. There are a number of screenings listed for the Denver/Boulder/Ft Collins area)
The film is a comprehensive review of the current research on screen time’s effects on teens in particular, as seen through a parenting lens. Dr Delaney Rustun, concerned and unsure of how to best handle her own teenagers’ screen time use, delved into the topic and the available research and created a fascinating documentary. [Read more…]
Spending quality time alone is about coming home to our self and our inner world, and staying in contact with that which is deep and permanent … and invisible … that “which can not be lost in a shipwreck.” Self knowledge requires time alone that is quiet, allowing for reflection, feeling, relaxing, and yes, sometimes discomfort. Self knowledge is the path to integrating experience and information, leading to discovering who we are, what we are here to do and fulfilling ourselves through the giving of our gifts back to the world. 