So, my 2-year-old daughter is naturally high energy and short attention span, like most 2 year olds I assume. Now, I have never ever placed a phone in front of

So, my 2-year-old daughter is naturally high energy and short attention span, like most 2 year olds I assume. Now, I have never ever placed a phone in front of her during dinner. Occasionally I have had to employ "here comes the airplane" which is what my parents did, following their parents' "here comes the choo choo train", which I assume followed something like "here comes the horse and buggy" or the like. I also have a friend with a daughter one year older. He tells me that he puts the phone in front of his kid during every dinner time because "it's the only way she will eat", and furthermore he has to pause the show so that she will chew, and then unpause the show as a reward for chewing and who knows what else. I can tell you, my kid can eat her own food with no assistance and no complaints about half the time, and I think that's pretty good for age two. In short, I think our parents had a decent idea of how to raise kids and we throw that out in exchange for new technology at our peril.