The other day I biked to the park to play tennis with my dad. Family bonding activity.
While I was there, a mother and her two kids, about grade school age, showed up. Her kids started to run and climb and jump on the playground, while her mother sat down on a bench, and proceeded to go on her phone for an hour.
Is there something wrong with this picture?
Whatever happened to the days where your parents would play games with you or at least watch to make sure that you were not messing around with anything? I feel like she subliminally setting an example for her children. Yes, the kids are getting exercise, but what about the mother being actively involved in their own childhood? It makes me wonder how social medias affected not only us, but the next generation. If we are glued to our phones twenty four hours a day, what will our children be like? Will they experience the same childhood, with make believe and scooters and chalk, as us? Or will they be glued to the iPads and Xboxes and DSes?
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