Leaving our children for any reason makes our hearts hurt. Fortunately, the technology of our time provides incredible proximity. Tonight I got a kiss from my 4 year-old from 2000+ miles away while in a Google Hangout. Every parent has tricks that allows them to endure working trips or distance from their children created by time or space. FaceTime and Google Hangouts allow me to join books at bedtime and spontaneous conversations on the fly. Ohhh, thank you 2013…
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Marina Salcedo says
Yes! My husband who left today for a work trip got a chance to sing my daughter to sleep tonight via our wireless webcam/baby monitor with two way voice. Technology can be pretty sweet sometimes!
Kaisa Lervik says
I love technology when you can’t be together. 🙂 I talked to my little one over Skype last time I travelled overnight. Our best communication story is when he “talked to” his great grandmum over the Atlantic during his first summer. We spent 3 weeks in the Seattle area, and our family in Norway were wondering how he was doing. His grandparents watched him roll sideways for the first time over Skype. Tech is awsome!
Christine Vara says
My husband is a Marine and often deployed for 6-9 months at a time. Right now, Facetime has made a huge difference in his current deployment. Years ago we would write letters and occasionally get a chance to talk by phone, but it was always difficult for our 5 children to really feel connected with him that way. Now, Facetime allows them to not only talk to him, but see him, kiss him (or the screen) and laugh with him much more frequently. I’m only sad that some day, when my kids break open the huge foot locker full of love letters that their Dad and I have mailed each other over the years, there will be one thing notable missing…a permanent record of the conversations they had with him in the years since technology took a giant leap forward.
Wendy Sue Swanson, MD, MBE says
I totally agree, Christine. It’s the funny part of the blessing of technology…virtually zero breadcrumb trail of where we’ve been and the things we shared. Thank goodness for our memory. I do my best to write things down on paper but each year it is more and more sparse….
ps –there is something called “eyeTV” that could record those FaceTime conversations or anything else in your computer or TV. Perhaps consider it?
Ora M. Roberts says
Your real life stories make my heart sing ♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪. Thank you!
Wendy Sue Swanson, MD, MBE says
Oh goodness, thanks. In a cab headed toward my home from the airport. May beat the boys home from swimming lessons–giddy as a school girl to see them!!