Tag: technology

• How To Cope With An Internet Outage With Millennials

  My sympathies lie with the businesses that were affected by Telstra’s latest outage last week. My own family has been at their mercy for the past two weeks, effectively in lockdown. Any parent will tell you that there is no greater pain than watching a child suffer, and that is exactly what we have been…

  My Midlife Mayhem

  November 5, 2018

  Family, Home, humor, Lifestyle, Midlife Observations, millenials, Parenting, social media, Teenagers

  dysfunction, familylife, technology

• I Like To Think An Old Dog Can Learn New Tricks…

  However… every trip out of the home these days seems to involve some shaming new public lesson in technology that highlights my mom-ness and has zero human interaction or support. I pity the really old people who used to see a trip to the shops as the one chance in their day for conversation. I think…

  My Midlife Mayhem

  October 30, 2017

  Ageing, Food, humor, Lifestyle, middle age, Midlife Observations, Shopping

  dementia, middleage, technology

• Why We Hate Millennials

  In the same way that we’ve had to forgive our parents for screwing us up, Millennials need to stop blaming Generation X for just about everything. Or that’s what I used to think…, because I’ve not been averse in recent times to some millennial-bashing on this site; guilty of writing the odd scathing comment or…

  My Midlife Mayhem

  February 19, 2017

  happiness, Home, humor, mental health, Midlife Observations, Parenting, Teenagers

  entitlement, millenials, socialmedia, technology

• Technology, Women and Middle Age

  Nothing makes me laugh out loud quite as much as those text fail memes sent from, (shall we say), mature people. Like this: Or this: These texts demonstrate our generation’s complete lack of intuition when it comes to modern technology and if my friends are anything to go by, women are generally the worst offenders.…

  My Midlife Mayhem

  March 2, 2015

  Ageing, Marriage, Women

  middleage, socialmedia, technology, Teenagers