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How phone checking steals presence with children

I keep checking my watch during my son's soccer game and he keeps looking at me from the field and I can see I'm missing his childhood in real time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The parent is physically present but temporally absent, creating a confusing double message for the child about their worth.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Children and time — how they experience it?”

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