I chose
to do my restaurant observation location at my town’s local café, JC’s. I went
in the morning for breakfast so I witnessed a little different crowd than
usual. It was definitely an older generation that I observed.
Modern nonverbal communication was
crazy to watch. In my family, we have a rule that when we are at dinner at our
house or a restaurant, phones are not allowed at the table. There was a situation
that occurred in the restaurant that made a little furious. There was an older
couple who was sitting with a teenage girl in the back booth. The relationship seemed
to be grandparents and granddaughter. They were out for a morning breakfast.
However, the granddaughter was completely uninterested and barely looked up
from her phone. The older couple engaged in conversation but the girl never
seemed involved in the chat. Phones are becoming a block in today’s society.
People can’t live without them and it is interrupting actual verbal
communication. Her cell phone definitely distracted her from her grandparents.
The
second observation that stood out to me was between a family. There was a set
of parents, two boys, and a baby girl. First off, I could read “tired” all over
the mother. She was shrugged shoulder, lower head, bags under her eyes, and her
physical appearance lead that way as well. She had her hair thrown up on top of
her head with some baggy sweats. It wasn’t like a bad tired however. I read her
nonverbal communication of tiredness as a good tired. A tiredness that came
from her chasing her children and letting them achieve highness. I have no idea
if that’s the case but I did get that vibe from her.
I agree that phones can cause a block between communication with family. It's good that your family has the rule of not allowing that sort of behavior and perhaps more families should instill this rule.
ReplyDeleteI observed a very similar situation and unfortunately I think they are becoming more and more prevalent. It seems everyone has a phone and thinks they need to check it every few minutes. I read a statistic once that said the average person checks their phone every two minutes. Theres something terribly wrong if we can't sit through dinner with our families and not check our phones. There is a no phones at the table rule at my house. Meal time is the time to reconnect and talk about our day.
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