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The Family Road Trip By Lisa Segelman Summary

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In the same way, Lisa Segelman, the author of “ The Family Road Trip: Strangers in a Minivan,” Presents a similar view when describing the impact of technology on family time. Segelman is a mother of three kids and has a husband. When she was a little kid, family road trips were fun. They did activities on the road trip such as counting license plate, Singing songs, and enjoying the sights around them. Now as an adult, she wants to replicate the old road trips and do it with her family. When segelman went on a road trip with her family it was ruined by technology. For example, She borrowed a two-screen DVD player. Segelman didn't realize how much technology she was borrowing. Technology became the focus of her kids instead of looking outside …show more content…

She feels lonely and isolated from the family whom she had hoped to bond with. But suddenly her daughter got tangled in her seat belt. As it turns out that she had a pair of scissors in an old fashioned emergency kit. “ The scissors may have been low on tech, but at least they were the right tool,” (Segelman, 2007, P.2). Then as he road trip was about to end, she had hoped that we don't tune out on some basic things. She worries that our devices will disconnect us from people, sites, and experiences around us. Reflecting on the impact of technology, Segelman describes the different types of road trips that she experiences when she states, “ When I was young, driving cross country was a shared experience. Today, we're all driving solo,” (Segelman, 2007, P.2). Basically, Segelman argues that the old road trips with her family have a sense of bonding whereas the new one has a sense of isolation because of technology that is in the way of family

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