and 18 encounter
sexual advances but only one in four
will say something to their parents at
the end of today’s speech one child will
commit a suicide due to online bullying
one more person will die from distracted
driving technology has come a long ways
and has become a major impact in how we
live our lives from distracted driving
online predators online bullying having
having a wall between us and other
people has changed how we interact six
years ago I had the best day of my life
I got a promotion couldn’t wait to go
home and tell my wife
lollipops sunshine all that was
happening for me on my way home on the
same road in the same car with the same
traffic I’ve always had something was
different I left work a little bit later
and it was construction time in Iowa I
know
short season a little bit heavier
traffic and as I came off the on-ramp I
could see out of the corner of my eye
somebody on her cellphone a little
disturbing a little concerning but she
was behind me great I can go home five
seconds later I am she hits the back of
my car
Wham I hit the van in front of me
traffic had come to an abrupt stop which
we have all encountered but what made it
different was when I got out of the car
and I looked at who hit me it was the
luckily things ended in a positive way
all of us walk out of there
no damage nobody died that’s not always
the case distracted driving has been one
of the biggest impacts on road drivers
today with technology and cell phones
people can’t wait to pick up their phone
and call somebody always answering a
text message never waiting for the right
time our children are watching us at
home pick up our cell phones as soon as
they go off there’s no more private time
there’s no more let the phone ring we’re
eating dinner we allow them to take that
distraction immediately if we could
reach our children in an earlier age and
try to inform them to break away from
technology people can wait things can
wait this would never happen
we’ve never been in an apartment not
only as technology caused us to be
distracted more easily it has also
caused us to lose the social
interactions that we depend on as we
grow older it’s hard for somebody to
have a conversation one-on-one with you
when all they know is text language they
don’t know how to read your body
language your emotions what’s going on
in your head have you ever tried to read
somebody’s demeanor in a text and take
it completely the wrong way today’s
children have no clue what it’s like to
actually hold a conversation with
another person all they know is the
blue-screen sure they can get to
whatever website they want post whatever
pictures they want say whatever they
want online but I actually talked to
somebody and say something to their face
and wait for response is completely
different we need to sit at a dinner
table
talk to our families how was your day
would you do it in school did you enjoy
that and see their response wait for
most recently out of Chicago there are
two stories that are absolutely
appalling for people kidnapped a special
needs person abused him beat him harmed
him robbed him all while filming it on
Facebook live what was even going
through their heads why didn’t anybody
stop them the second story also coming
out of Chicago
fourteen-year-old rapes a 15 year old on
Facebook live thirty two of his friends
watched nobody called the cops when we
give our children these cell phones and
tablets and we say go entertain yourself
we don’t think about what they’re
actually watching only one-third of you
are actually stopping things at home
blocking internet access to aggressive
websites adult entertainment the other
two-thirds your children can access
anything their children can access
anything at your house we need to teach
children what it’s like to be humans we
need to break them away from that
technology put the phone down we need to
be a family again if we could teach them
that little bit of human nature and
human kind these stories should never
happen we wouldn’t have to worry about a
fourteen-year-old degrading the human
body to the point where he thinks it’s
okay to even come close to raping
at one dinner conversation one time a
week no TV in his bedroom talking to our
kids not texting the kids go home put
the phone down and have a family time thank you