Emma Kenney Quotes

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.

I declare an end to my day by removing my phone from my bedroom and putting it in a phone charging bed.

Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.

I came off Snapchat. I was done with it... I think I spent too much time on it.

Please watch a little less television. Maybe post a few less comments about the lunch you had today.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

If I was a parent or a kid, I would need a cell phone, and those things are invaluable, but my kids are out of the house now, and I am thrilled when I wake up to not have a cell phone, and feel like today is stretching out in front of me for 1,000 hours, as it seems.

It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.

While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

We spend our lives in front of screens, and cooking is one of the best antidotes.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you've got to set those phones down.

I take breaks from social media periodically because I think it is healthy to walk away and focus on the life that's in front of you instead of the life happening on your screen.

It's very important that children learn to use technology - it's part of life - but also that they learn when to put it down.

I try to stay away from the Internet.

There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.

I don't let the computer into my bedroom. It would get in the way of life, sleep. And I really can't let that happen.

I could give up my phone any day. I don't need it.

Yes, I'm grateful for technology. But I'm also happy for the off switch.

I don't try to attach myself to technology so much. I'm on my phone a lot, though, but in the off season, I try to get away from it as much as I can.

I begin to cut myself off in a digital shutdown at about 10 P.M. Phone, laptop, and iPad go down. If I'm at home, I'll leave my laptop and iPad in the living room. Those things don't go into my bedroom at all.

I'm trying to spend less time with the phone when the kids are awake in general. I need to get better about that. It's a perennial New Year's resolution.

The dirty little secret that nobody likes to talk about is that things just might have been better before the Internet. We had more time to ourselves before cell phones and text messaging and Facebook consumed our lives.

I'm not really about spending every second on social media. I think there's a lot more useful things you can do with your time.