Jordan Wexler, best known for uniting small business professionals through an
online platform he created (www.SmartGuy.com), seems to now be taking aim at
reforming traditional family structures.
As much as I love technology, many "advancements" in
technology have guided us away from family unity, and turned our focus towards immediate gratification and personal indulgence
– with family interaction getting thrown to the side.
Kids today walk around the house with headphones glued to their ears.
They call lunch or dinner a 3 minute interaction with the microwave, and move
right on to their Xbox or PlayStation…and when your 4 year old cries for
attention and interaction, don’t sit and talk with him or play a board game,
just throw him an iPad!
Wexler, who spent a year writing a
book on human behavior at the age of 19, continues,
"Although some parents might feel that this makes their life easier, they
don’t realize the future damage this will cause as these same kids will have to
try to fend off all that life throws at them - without the wealth of experience
that could be gained by talking to their family members.
You see, there has been a deterioration of the nuclear family - a family
where the grandparents, parents, uncles/aunts and other family members live
together and/or in constant interaction with each other. This is a serious
problem and is affecting all of humanity whether people realize it or not.
Just as a small bird would not do well leaving the nest before their
time, children leaving the family on their own before truly gaining the necessary
insight others more experienced can provide has serious future negative implications and will manifest itself into
problems we don't yet realize - unless we do something to put us back on
track."
When asked how all this relates to
food, Wexler states,
“Food is the ‘glue’…the conduit I will use to bring back family meal
time. It has been around since the very beginning of time and we need to keep
it. Spend time with the family preparing a meal...cooking a meal...and most of
all eating a meal - and while doing it, talk. Talk about what is going on in everyone's life, what is bothering everyone, what people love - but most importantly spend the
time talking with each other.
FindingFood.com will be much more than finding and sharing food and
recipes...I will
use it as a conduit to bring thousands (if not millions) of people together. The more people that learn what we are doing,
the more that will share in the cause – whether they are foodies or not!"
You can be one of the first to try
it when it goes live by joining the Finding Food Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FindingFood/
Jordan, I enjoyed reading this post because this is a very important family matter. Fortunately in our family dinner time is a must for all family members (luckily our working schedules allow that time!), so we can gather every evening together, spend time as a family and talk. TV is off at that time too (and not TV in the kitchen either). Simple thing like having a family meal goes a long way in supporting good relationships....
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