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Watching parents at the park is a little sad. Lots of three and four year olds with an adult who never looks away from their phone.
by klooney 4y ago
Watching parents at the park is a little sad. Lots of three and four year olds with an adult who never looks away from their phone.
- softwaredoug 4y agoI would withhold judgment. With a 3-4 year old, as a parent, I can tell you you may not know that they need a break. Or that they spent all morning interacting at home, and are just trying to get out of the house and the kid into a situation they can catch a breather. The _guilt_ I would feel looking at my phone as a parent is objectively unproductive when I look objectively at how much 1-1 time I have sunk into my kid. People need breaks, and if not the phone, it would be something else...
- warner25 4y agoI'm a parent to four little kids, and I've spent a ton of time at home with them over the last few years. When I take them to the park, it's often so that I can have a break, because it's a safe place for them to spread out and explore and interact with someone other than me, where I'm not constantly preventing them from breaking things or making a big mess. That's where I can take some time to read, or listen to something, or make a phone call. The other 11 hours of the day when they're awake and we're at home, I don't necessarily have time to do anything for myself on a screen. I'm not saying you're wrong. I suspect that you're right, in fact. But what's happening at the park might not be the best indicator.
- thenerdhead 4y agoI hate it, but I also have no problem being a transient parent who brings a little happiness to them while their parents are distracted. I wrote a book about this realization recently where I'd see a similar statistic of other parents at a park on their phone and not involved with their kids. Leave your phone at home, it's seriously that easy and you won't regret it.