Another one from the archives – and I do miss those early years school runs.
Smart phones and Disconnected Parenting:
I see it everywhere, in the cinema, in the restaurant, in the play park, at school sports days, at the zoo etc. All places where for years, generations even, parents & children have spent time together. I see fathers at the Saturday morning cinema with their young children, get seated & comfortable then out comes dad’s phone, many phones can be seen glowing from the rows behind, kids ignored while misbehaving noisily while waiting for the film to begin. The big cinema screen request to ‘turn off your phones’ has been translated to ‘set it to silent’! No talking to the children, no interaction just staring at the annoyingly glowing device.
But by far the worst is on the school run. Would you not agree that Simple Pleasures are just The Best aren’t they? Like the sight of 30 or so, 4/5/6 year old children exiting from their classroom at the end of the school day in an orderly fashion, uniforms all dishevelled, one sock up the other down, coats half done up, proudly clutching their latest art work creation, then spotting their Mum or Dad and hopping, skipping, with beaming, often toothless grins up to meet them. But how sad when Mum or Dad misses this moment, just seconds long but an eternal memory, because they are staring at their phone at that moment! I see it daily, such a shame. Enjoy and cherish those Happy, innocent, beautiful young minds and for goodness sake Interact, just for a few seconds 🙂
How does that meme go? “Get off FaceBook Mum and Feed Me!”
Originally Published on
9/6/14 12:43 PM
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