My son lost something today. Something that he failed to value much but have kept him company for a long time. Funny that it is that it took him all of 30 minutes to recover and I spent much of the day mulling the loss. After crying and sobbing into the pillow, he found a way to accept it and let it go. It dawned on me that the reason why I kept mulling over it was not the fact that it was expensive. It was because I was dependent on that device to keep my son entertained while I did my things. A babysitter of sort. Wrong, I know. I guess that is the reason why the device is lost. The reason behind it is that I need to stop using these devices to keep my kids from being in the real world and for me to spend more time with them, connecting the way parents should. The difference between how he dealt with it and how I did it was that he spent some time crying over it, regretting it and then finding a way to accept the fact. And I spent much of the time wishing I could turn back time a...