Susan Maushart Quotes:

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

source: - Susan Maushart (2011). “The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale”, p.23, Penguin

Topics: Maturity, Decision, Competence

Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

source: - Susan Maushart (2011). “The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale”, p.51, Penguin

Topics: Motivation, Needs, Discomfort

Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live with.

Topics: Cities, People, Personality

We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.

Topics: Children, Raising Children, Acknowledge

...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

Topics: Simple, Self, Bored, Plain And Simple

Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared "e-mail bankruptcy.

source: - Susan Maushart (2011). “The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale”, p.79, Penguin

Topics: Mail, Overwhelmed, Boxes