I ouch, ouch, ouched my way through this article “The Dangers of Distracted Parenting”.
Parents should give themselves permission to back off from the suffocating pressure to be all things to all people. Put your kid in a playpen, already! Ditch that soccer-game appearance if you feel like it. Your kid will be fine. But when you are with your child, put down your d* phone.
(Quote lightly edited to keep our family-friendly rating.)
“Continuous Partial Attention”, that’s a great term…
“parents themselves, who now suffer from what the technology expert Linda Stone more than 20 years ago called ‘continuous partial attention.'”
A beautiful fact –
“Child development is relational, which is why, in one experiment, nine-month-old babies who received a few hours of Mandarin instruction from a live human could isolate specific phonetic elements in the language while another group of babies who received the exact same instruction via video could not. “