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There is seriously something wrong (as a MATURE adult) with having to be on a cell phone everywhere you go, all the time, no matter who you are with. Pay attention to your driving, to your child, to your friend, to the clerk, or whatever you are involved with. There is no argument that cell phones have become awesome tools to make your life more fun and more convenient. But, when a person cannot disconnect from it to pay attention to the outside world and what is happening around them, it is a problem, and it is rude.
The nice thing is, most kids will listen to any voice of authority, at least long enough to get your kids away from him. Put on your best Bossy Parent voice, yell "No pushing on the slide," and the kid will stop.
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You're 100% right and that's what I did. He eventually looked up and brought his kid off the slide and on to another station where I watched him pick his phone right up and continue playing "angry birds" or something.
One thing I love about kids is that they move on quicker than I do, apparently. My kids went on about there day and here I am the following morning still thinking about it
I went to a Fall Festival today....bounce houses, face painting etc...my 2 daughters (4 & 2) were climbing up the tall bounce house with a slide and this boy, probably 7 or 8 decided to terrorize my kids at the top by pushing them down the slide and flat out scaring my 2 year old. His father was standing right next to me playing on his cell phone without a care in the world. I made a comment about "who's little boy is that" and he continued to text away.....it eventually was worked out and we all moved on but...
I see more and more people these days whether it's with their kids, at a restaurant, sporting events, concerts today glued to their cell phone and not paying attention to the world around them. It scares me to think that kids these days are growing up in an environment that promotes a lack of face to face communication.
Well -- the parent a of a 2 year old playing around older kids is the parent who of course must watch more closely -- it doesn't matter if it's one of these festivals, or a McDonalds play area. It's not so much the cell phone, the dad could have been engrossed in a book or newspaper or just not paying attention.
Cell phone use does kind of annoy me --- here the driver of every other car is busy chatting or texting while driving, laws against that have accomplished nothing. You can go to lunch with people and they end up spending their time checking their cell phone, answering every text and call. People are like zombies now, if they don't feel their cell phone go off, they get an anguish look and start checking. I don't see how people like to be so bond to their telephones.
We see this at our preschool and have made a no cell phone policy in the carpool line. Most of our Moms are stay at home Moms.Nothing sadder than bringing a preschooler to their car when they are so excited to share what they did that day or show their special art then the car door opens and Mom is yaking on the phone. She smiles but is obviously distracted, wish they could see the disappointment that is obvious to us. Time passes too quick don't miss the special moments because you can't hang up. Wait until they take a nap, go to bed or use the time they are at school.
First of all, there's not much you can do about it. This is 2012 and this is the way life is. But, I agree, the observance made in the original post is very realistic.
If you can't beat em, join em. I just bought a smartphone and now I am one of the parents during soccer practices with my nose buried in the internet during situations previously known as sociable. I gave up trying to talk to these parents at soccer games. They're just too busy on facebook to talk to me about school issues, sports, where they moved from, etc.
Here's a shot I snapped at one of my kids' soccer GAMES (not practice). This woman's kid is playing in the game and here she is on Facebook:
Phone third. Unless the President has you on speed dial and has a question about national security there is nothing you need to do on your phone that overrules you keeping an eye on your kid in public.
Omg.
Dude, maybe he was texting his mother in another state to see how his father was pulling through after a heart attack.
Maybe he was reading about hurricane sandy and information about a town his family lives in since he hasn't heard anything from them in a few days.
And cell phones bring people together not push them apart, because of cell phones we can speak to people no matter where they are, anytime anywhere, my boyfriend at work, my grandmother in Tennessee.
It's here to stay, learn to love it.
Yes they can be a good tool but if you're having a face to face conversation with some one and they're preoccupied with texting or talking then that's rude. It drives me up the wall when these idiots in theaters can't stop flashing their cell phones for two hours. I finally had to ask a young person to please stop as it was very annoying. I say everyone turn off your cell phones and focus on the here and now before the world turns into socially retarded robots that can't communicate without texting something.
We see this at our preschool and have made a no cell phone policy in the carpool line. Most of our Moms are stay at home Moms.Nothing sadder than bringing a preschooler to their car when they are so excited to share what they did that day or show their special art then the car door opens and Mom is yaking on the phone. She smiles but is obviously distracted, wish they could see the disappointment that is obvious to us. Time passes too quick don't miss the special moments because you can't hang up. Wait until they take a nap, go to bed or use the time they are at school.
Personally, If a preschool told me what to do in the pickup line regarding my phone use that was not safety related I would ignore it. That would be overstepping the parenting boundaries. They don't know me or what I do with my kids, how I interact etc and have no right to dictate to me that I be ready to "hear" my kid the moment they get into the car because some administrator at the school thought they should mandate how a parent parents.
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Originally Posted by Mrs. Skeffington
Me to my adult daughters: "Put that d**n thing away and pay attention to your mother".
We were recently at a local hamburger joint. A dad was there with his young child, the dad would not put his phone down and interact with his child. I found the scene to be very sad.
I am all for technology but I prefer mine to be served with limits. Not only do I limit our teens activity but ours as well. Dinners and family time are to be unplugged.
I believe our society is losing our sense of courtesy, I might be the lone hold out but courtesy is something I still believe in and I try to teach my kids by example.
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