Parents addicted to new technologies

If parents are a mirror for children, what are we showing them? A few days ago I ate with my children in a restaurant and suddenly a family arrived. The two parents with their two children sat at the next table. Then, the parents took out their cell phone and started playing with him. The children shouted, climbed into the chair, threw the napkin on the floor. They did not get his attention. For 30 long minutes, his parents were surfing through the net, oblivious to what was happening with their children.

The addiction of parents to new technologies affects children

I was sad to see that scene. I imagined the day to day of those children, who shouted desperate to get a few minutes of talk with their parents. And it made me think. What are we teaching our children? How far can the madness take us to stay connected to the networks 24 hours a day?

There is something that they will never be able to give us back: the time we lost while our children were growing. Their laughter, their games, their naive phrases. Suddenly they grow and there is no going back. It will then be the children who ignore the parents and the parents who try to get the attention of the children. It will be them, our children, who connect to the networks and isolate themselves from the world. As they saw their parents do. And it does not take much time. It is increasingly normal to see young children with a smartphone in their hands.

It is estimated that one out of every 1,000 people is dependent on the mobile phone and half of those under 17 years of age say they need the cell phone for their day-to-day life. They sleep with him and they get up with him. With this panorama, cómo what will be the future of our children? How will you relate to others? And what concerns our parents the most: how will they relate to us?