WBKR » Parents http://wbkr.com Wed, 22 May 2013 04:09:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 One Mom's iPhone Rules For Her Son http://wbkr.com/one-moms-iphone-rules-for-her-son/ http://wbkr.com/one-moms-iphone-rules-for-her-son/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:52:59 +0000 Jaclyn Graves http://wbkr.com/?p=140244 This is one of those pictures that has shown up on my facebook feed just about a million times. So, at notification 11,576, I finally clicked on it and read it through. It was about a Mom, Janell Burley Hofmann and her 13 year-old son. You see, her son received an iPhone for Christmas. But, what's interesting about this story is what went along with him receiving that iPhone... a set of rules, 18 rules to be exact. And, if I'm being completely honest with us both, I know a lot of adults who need some of these rules... including myself.

Some of my favorites are: "#11Turn it off, silence it, put it away in public. Especially in a restaurant, at the movies or while speaking with another human being. #17 Keep your eyes up. See the world happening around you. Stare out a window. Listen to the birds. Take a walk. Talk to a stranger. Wonder without googling."

Want to see the other 16 rules?

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