Childhood Cyborgs

The other day I biked to the park to play tennis with my dad. Family bonding activity.
While I was there, a mother and her two kids, about grade school age, showed up. Her kids started to run and climb and jump on the playground, while her mother sat down on a bench, and proceeded to go on her phone for an hour.
Is there something wrong with this picture?
Whatever happened to the days where your parents would play games with you or at least watch to make sure that you were not messing around with anything? I feel like she subliminally setting an example for her children. Yes, the kids are getting exercise, but what about the mother being actively involved in their own childhood? It makes me wonder how social medias affected not only us, but the next generation. If we are glued to our phones twenty four hours a day, what will our children be like? Will they experience the same childhood, with make believe and scooters and chalk, as us? Or will they be glued to the iPads and Xboxes and DSes?

Ethnography Issues

I chose to overlook an anxiety support group that is based in Maple Grove. I do not know anyone in this group, or anything about the group, which may cause a bit of trouble, but I hope that it will not be too severe. Coming from anxiety troubles, I know what some of the kids in this group are going through, and it will be interesting to see how they deal with it. I hope to gain more knowledge on how the school system, families, and our society impact everyday youth, and how they have trouble getting through everyday life.

I may know a little too much about this, considering I've been thought therapy. It wasn't group therapy, and I hope that will cause enough of a distance that I can successfully observe them without any bias. I'm worried that the coordinator of the group will not allow me to observe the meetings, or that the teens in the group will be too nervous to open up and be themselves once I am in the picture. In all honesty I am scared to contact the coordinator. What exactly am I supposed to say? How can I convince her to let me observe the group?

The Ethics of Storytelling

When it comes to storytelling, not every single detail is going to be remembered. Not every single detail can be recalled, so it comes down to lying and stretching the truth. The only question is how far can someone go and still be "true"? What truly is ethical can change from person to person, so for my personal narrative, I'm hoping to stay towards the middle of the line of ethics. 

For example, I want to try to get the story as close as I can possibly get for being true, but minor details like senses and conversations will most likely be sacrificed in order to expand upon the imagery. There just small technicalities that no reader will really remember. It's just for taste. As for emotional verses, I want this story to be factual, but I want the readers to be able to see it through my eyes. Being the storyteller, I feel like I have to give the readers the right story, but a little emotion never hurts. Dialogue doesn't really have to be exact, as long as the main subject stays the same. We go through hundreds of conversations every day, of course we don't remember all of them. Why sweat over a story when you can't remember what your mother exactly said over dinner?

It's ethical if you add a few white lies, the details are just for color.

Domains

What to write, oh what to write...What in my life can I write about and expand upon while educating the public...

• Anxiety: This would be fun because I experienced it first hand and it is a growing topic in the world, as well as interesting.
• Depression: I slightly experienced this, but it was mainly my sister. Still, metal issues are very interesting to my and the psychology behind it.
• Anorexia (Eating Disorders): This topic runs in my family a lot, and is woven within my life. It would be slightly harder to write a narrative considering it did not personally happen to me firsthand.

My number one choice is Anxiety, simply because so many teens go through it in high school and college as well as the fact that I dealt with it for a year or so.

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