What Are We Going To Do About The Phones

A Your Mom post.

I’ve spent the better part of the last two weeks in the NY area visiting friends - mostly friends with kids. One family had kids the same age as mine, the other was older - 14 and 11.

When we were with the other family with a 4 and a 6 year old, we let them watch TV at night, but for 90% of the visit the kids were playing, or outdoors, or playing outdoors. More than once we remarked on how people now lament that kids spend all their time inside, on screens. Ha, HA! Look at US! Our kids are playing PRETEND! They’re filthy! They’re tired! Look! This one skinned her knees! Ho, HO!

And they were! They happily explored outside, inventing games, having weird little conversations we couldn’t hear while on my friend’s swing set. It felt so good and pure, so much like what we did as little kids in the 90s. And there we were, the parents, phones in hand, ready to capture every peep, beep and giggle in 1080p HD at 60 fps. So many hours of video, shot during the best moments of my life. I don’t kno…