If you Give a Mouse an IPhone – Shows Kids are Missing Out on
Life by Spending Too Much Time on their Phones
Thursday night a member of our discussion group shared that he
thought if we had had iPhones as teenagers we would not have been on them all
the time because of the post Vietnam continuing love and peace movement
and creative vibe of the time period we would have continued to play guitars,
sing and have deep philosophical conversations. Most of us disagreed and
said the cocaine like hit we get from being on our cell phones is addictive and
that peer pressure would have pulled us into the habit and the hit would have
kept us there. We continued with a discussion about how most kids and
adults are so caught up on their iPhone they are not experiencing real life.
This inspired me to find the video of the little children’s book spoof, “If you
Give a Mouse an iPhone. The links are below you may want to follow that up with
Good Night ipad parody of Good Night Moon. I am particularly fascinated
with the mouse child being so distracted by the iPhone that he misses out on
all the adventures in life. You may want to read the excerpt from my book SNAP
Making the Most of First Impressions Body Language and Charisma Tech
Impressions chapter where I talk about the neuroscience of checking your phone
messages and goggling for information.
Here are the links to the cartoons
