Chris Larsen describes ignoring his 3-year-old daughter while scrolling, feeling guilty but unable to stop. He installed Opal to block his phone access and create hard boundaries. He argues extreme measures are necessary to break phone habits.
About two and a half to three years old.
About four years ago (relative to the recording).
Opal
My daughter bleed. She was like two and a half, three years old at the time. She was waiting like a little coffee table, living room and she was playing with some stuff. And I should been, I was supposed to be as a father, present father. I should have been playing with bliss. I was on my phone. I don't remember again, this was four years ago. I don't remember what I was doing. I was either on email or Sylvia and she was trying to get my attention, but I was so into my phone, like I didn't even realize it. And finally she like hits me on my leg and it kind of jolts me. And I look up and she, the sweet, cutest eyes, she says, daddy, pay attention to me. And I'm like, like a three year old saying that. Like it was just like the stab in the heart. So I'm like, okay, I'm not going to be on my phone anymore. Guess what? The next day I was doing the same thing. Why? Because I didn't have systems in place. I didn't create boundaries. This Opal app now, like I, I can no longer get on, my phone is blocked. And so now sometimes to take extreme measures to, to break extreme habits. So that's like one system. If you didn't do anything else, I would highly recommend you doing that.
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