It's Spring time, so of course parents are going to be outside with their kids at the playground. And if adults are outside, of course they have their cell phones on them. And it someone has some piece of relatively new tech with them, of course some Luddite is going to complain. It happened this week when my Facebook feed lit up with a post chastising a Mom at a playground for being on her phone. Being on her phone while... what exactly was happening? What exactly was she missing? The story chastises her for missing, well, I guess its point is that she is missing her child's childhood. In reality, as I mentioned in a previous post, she is missing no such thing. If she is any kind of parent, she has seen her kid climb steps and go down a slide. What the post ignores is that we outsiders have no idea what she is doing on that phone. Sure, it fits into our nice preconceived notion if she is texting a friend (oooooh, please let be a drug dea...
We tried for one, and we ended up with a bushel of fun.