Parenting While Plugged In
Hurt, Jealousy, Competition? Is this the type of feeling you would expect from your child as a response to your relationship with your smartphone? For an item that has integrated itself into most aspects of our life, we should give some thought as to how it is impacting our children. I am guilty of using my phone to email, Facebook, and text while I am with my daughter. I have occasionally been tugged back to reality when I spend too much time on it. Subtle cues such as, Push me on the swing Mommy! Or, Come and walk through the jungle forest. I do aim to limit my time on my phone when I am with my daughter. Our school has a "No Phone Use" policy, which helps make me more conscious of how often I use it. On the other hand, I have also spent some of her gymnastics classes playing on my phone rather than watching her learn new skills. Have you looked around at any of the un-parented classes? The majority of us...