The invention kids hate? Their parents' always-on cell phones.

PARENTS DISTRACTED BY SMARTPHONES

It took the naive sincerity of children to make us hit our noses, once again if there was any need, against the senseless use what do we do, from Parents, Cell, smartphone and electronic prosthetics.

In America, Jean Adam Beason, a very bright teacher, proposed the following theme to her very young students: «Describe an invention you don't like.». The result was that 4 out of 21 children, a very significant minority, have done the same thing, with the same object: Mom and Dad's cell phone.

(LThe image is from teacher Jean Adam Beason's Facebook page.)

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PARENTS AND SMARTPHONES

It's easy to understand where this rejection comes from. Children sense, not just instinctively but with extreme clarity, how an object used so compulsively takes away time from real, authentic relationships, the ones they want as children. They are aware, much more so than their narcissistic and inveterate computer-crazy parents, of how a smartphone can remove and not bring us closer. They understood that the Internet, as a great community, where we are all closer and more united, in permanent active service, is a gigantic hoax of modernity beyond our control.

You only have to enter the home of any family to realize this. Parents glued to their cell phones, and children placed in front of some video game, cell phones at the table, among the cutlery while eating, like guns in the Wild West. And we are the first, moms and dads, then they follow us.

We have denounced this several times on our website mass narcissism And the warning coming from American students is just one of the many confirmations that the ball in this extremely delicate game is in our hands. We continue to preach to our children, we write books about the inconsistencies of fathers, but we are unable, not even at home, in the intimacy of our most important loved ones, to make a small gesture of common sense. To unplug. And to set an example.

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SMARTPHONE-OBSESSED PARENTS

If you think about it, that's what happened with smoking. There are entire generations who learned to smoke by emulating the unhealthy habit of their parents, who practiced it at home without limits. And when the harmful effects of smoking finally entered our consciousness as men and women, when we parents began to quit smoking in front of them, then our children followed suit. They even became stricter than us. It's important. a smartphone ecology, like that of smokeAnd it needs to be done quickly, before children turn their backs on their parents. Because of a damned cell phone.

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