Susan Maushart

“Parenting in the age of mobile communication really does allow us to be there for our kids in a way never before…

— Susan Maushart

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

— Susan Maushart

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

— Susan Maushart

“The whole point of becoming an adult is to achieve self-reliance.”

— Susan Maushart

“The devices meant to simplify our lives merely create new and improved complexities.”

— Susan Maushart

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

— Susan Maushart

“Online chatting, on the other hand, has been linked to symptoms of loneliness, confusion, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and addiction.”

— Susan Maushart

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

— Susan Maushart

“Giving up one activity does not guarantee you will take up a more worthy substitute.”

— Susan Maushart

“No one's brain is different enough to make constant interruptions, distractions, and task-switching an optimal environment in which to function. No one's.”

— Susan Maushart

“Have you ever considered whether Perth's 'dullness' may have inspired you rather than inhibited you?”

— Susan Maushart

“The mind boggles, in other words, but the brain toggles- sometimes quite rapidly, from one task to the next.”

— Susan Maushart

“Yet where lies the line between compromise and surrender? Between relinquishing the ideal of perfection on the one hand, and losing one's…

— Susan Maushart

The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.

— Susan Maushart

“A world without boredom would be dull.”

— Susan Maushart

“Boredom might be construed as the impetus for achievement rather than as an obstacle to it.”

— Susan Maushart

“A pencil is an extension of a finger writing in the sand. But our electronic media are extensions of our brains.”

— Susan Maushart

“SMS made everything negotiable: hour by hour, minute by minute. There was no such thing as a firm plan or a final…

— Susan Maushart

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

— Susan Maushart

“Maybe it was the lack of stimulation that made you so productive and sort of... determined.”

— Susan Maushart

Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

— Susan Maushart

“He's a pug and he always looks that way.”

— Susan Maushart

“Friend' requires an adjective these days, since it otherwise feels empty.”

— Susan Maushart

“The information paradox- that the more data we have, the stupider we become- has a social corollary, too: that the more frantically…

— Susan Maushart