My definition of a "bad parent" would be dropping the kid in front of the TV and never talking to them about it. You know... There's a thing that I keep noticing when I go to restaurants... Plenty of parents put a tablet in front of their kid and have dinner pretending he/she doesn't exist. I was at Starbucks the other day an there was this cute little girl sit next to me with an ipad open in front of her and there was an episode of some cartoon she was watching with no audio nor earphones. She didn't care and she wanted to talk with her mom who was too busy texting and kept saying to her to watch her show. She looked at me and I smiled and she was kind of surprised to have met someone's eyes I guess (or I just looked creepy at first) and then she smiled back. Then the mother got up and closed her tablet and left with her. She waved at me through the window with a big smile...
And I see kinds left in front of tablets ALL the time! Even at the Disney Hollywood Studios... A kid was sitting in front of me at the Indiana Jones Stunt Experience and he played all the times with his tablet... That's scary!
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Date: 2016-05-11 02:52 pm (UTC)You know... There's a thing that I keep noticing when I go to restaurants... Plenty of parents put a tablet in front of their kid and have dinner pretending he/she doesn't exist. I was at Starbucks the other day an there was this cute little girl sit next to me with an ipad open in front of her and there was an episode of some cartoon she was watching with no audio nor earphones. She didn't care and she wanted to talk with her mom who was too busy texting and kept saying to her to watch her show. She looked at me and I smiled and she was kind of surprised to have met someone's eyes I guess (or I just looked creepy at first) and then she smiled back. Then the mother got up and closed her tablet and left with her. She waved at me through the window with a big smile...
And I see kinds left in front of tablets ALL the time! Even at the Disney Hollywood Studios... A kid was sitting in front of me at the Indiana Jones Stunt Experience and he played all the times with his tablet... That's scary!