{"id":5696,"date":"2023-03-09T18:07:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T01:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5696"},"modified":"2023-03-09T18:07:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T01:07:53","slug":"how-to-reach-the-grandkids-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5696","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO REACH THE (GRAND)KIDS\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you have kids or grandkids who always have their noses in their phones, even when they\u2019re supposed to be talking with you? We have a 17-year-old granddaughter who is like that. Always has been. She always has a screen in her hand, and she is (pick one) playing a game, reading a book, or texting with her friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">June had an epiphany the other day. You probably had it a long time ago, but for us it\u2019s new. June was following up with the granddaughter by text on something that had come up the last time they were together. They exchanged three or four text messages \u2013 the semblance of an actual conversation! Then it hit us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>If you want to reach someone who texts all the time\u2026text them!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re not the first. Paul wrote about it a long time ago:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2026I entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view\u2026 (1 Corinthians 9.22, MSG)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have kids or grandkids who always have their noses in their phones, even when they\u2019re supposed to be talking with you? We have a 17-year-old granddaughter who is like that. Always has been. She always has a screen in her hand, and she is (pick one) playing a game, reading a book, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5696\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HOW TO REACH THE (GRAND)KIDS\u2026<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1tS","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5697,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions\/5697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}