why is the dad in the restaurant bad, is it so wrong for kids to strip down to their nappies in the heat? or am I missing the point.

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Not the kid in the restaurant, not the painted kid, not the kid with the black ball....those are bad parenting.

Just because folks take cute pictures of their kids doesn't automatically mean they don't love and hold their children.

How do you know that these parents are holding their phones? Or that they even have phones? My guess is your parents, like all of our parents, dropped us, closed a door on our hand etc-and that was before cell phones existed.

Electronics steal the kid's boredom. Its during boredom that they improvise and bring out the creativity. Don't deprive them of the technology, just limit it to the minimum.

And my teachers love the fact that both my kids read well above their age and excel at math far beyond their age level. Why because they use electronics. Now ride a bike that might be an issue, but in the years to come no one will be watching jocks running towards a goal post. Welcome to the new world!