“Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup.” LooksIdeasEndsSchoolRememberCultureParentAttentionGrewGrew UpTablesPhonesDinnerCellsTeenagerLook UpDistractionSwingsCell PhoneToddlerDinner TableBlackberriesPickupsSchool Days Author:Sherry Turkle
“It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.” TwoHomeKidsSchoolMomCookingExtremesDinnerActressesStoresFedsLiving My LifeGroceriesNapsGrocery StoresStay At HomeI Live My LifeTwo ExtremesStay At Home MomCooking Dinner Author:Jennifer Garner
“It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.” ShouldRunningSchoolGirlTalkingFlowerPeriodsCallingConversationOfficePicksDistanceDinnerSentencesSundaySunday SchoolExcursions Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son
“The nice thing about being a director is that I can say, "I can only get into the room after the kids are at school, and I have to be back for dinner. And they're coming for lunch."” I CanKidsSchoolRoomsNiceDirectorsDinnerLunchNice Things Author:Angelina Jolie
“As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge was always in the air. My parents would always talk about science at the dinner table, saying something about this patient or some other patient. So I guess for a nanosecond in early high school, I thought about going into medicine.” KindChildrenSchoolParentKnownAirHigh SchoolTablesMedicinePatientDinnerPhrasesDinner Table Author:M. Night Shyamalan
“I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'” MomentsSchoolSpeakPresidentCollegeDinnerInvited Author:Ernest Cline