Sometimes we do not realize the valuable moments we lose with our children because of our hook to the mobile. We go to a thousand all day and a daily act like picking up the children in the nursery or in the school deserves that we leave the phone aside and pay attention to our children, know how the day has gone, what they have done, if they leave happy ...
A teacher from Texas, United States, has been observing this behavior in parents day after day, so she decided to hit a note at the entrance of the nursery asking parents to disconnect from the mobile when they pick up their children. In a few days it has become a viral phenomenon.
"He's picking up his son! TURN OFF THE PHONE! Your son is happy to see you! Are you happy to see your son? We have seen children trying to give their parents the work they have done and their parents are at phone. We have seen children say "Mommy, Mommy, Mommy ..." and the mother pay more attention to her phone than the child. It's scary. Turn off the phone! "
It is known as the new "distracted parenting," or when we look at the mobile rather than our children, parents who look like zombies abducted by the screen of a mobile.
We are hyperconnected parents who are not aware that the time we spend on the phone (whether talking or not) when we are with our children we are stealing from them.
There is time for everything, but we have to know how to control ourselves in the use of the devices and be more attentive to those moments we share together, which although they may seem insignificant, they are not at all. These are attitudes that although we do not do it intentionally, if they are repeated they will end up damaging communication with our children.
If your child leaves the nursery with a job to teach you and you are on the phone, the child will feel ignored. The children are very linear, you will feel that you don't care, even if you still can't express it.
So get rid of your cell phone and connect to your children by following some simple tips to detoxify how to silence or turn it off at the times you share with your children, if you can't stand the temptation, leave the cell phone at home when you go to pick up your child to the nursery or to school and put on schedules in which the children are not with you to use it.
