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To: Drew68

I admit to being just as bad.

My granddaughter turned two in June. She gets my phone and goes right to YouTube to watch Barney or other kid videos. She knows how to skip the ads. She can find the Snapchat app and can take her picture and send it to people. She gives me my phone if it rings. She knows how to hang up a call. It’s crazy.

My daughter is on her phone a lot, too. I often try to talk to her and she doesn’t hear a word I’m saying. I have to wonder how many parents are ignoring their children in favor of their phones.

I don’t think smartphone dependence is confined to teens.


34 posted on 08/03/2017 4:23:59 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

I’m addicted to my cell phone. It’s the best alarm clock ever. I keep it on my nightstand. When insomnia strikes, first I look at Drudge headlines, then I check in here to see what y’all are thinking about whatever...


48 posted on 08/03/2017 4:48:38 PM PDT by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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I have 2 great granddaughters. They kept taking my daughter's iPad away from her from the time they were about 1 1/2. Finally she got them their own. They could pick their own games, etc. it was funny before they got their own. Each would come to my daughter and say, “puter, Mamie, puter.” Now they are in 3rd and 4th grades. I think they use them in school this year.
79 posted on 08/03/2017 7:14:35 PM PDT by MamaB (Heb : 13:2)
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