Kids play with mobile phone to be like me..it's a red flag
Irish Sunday Mirror|June 04, 2023
MY little girl is four and she is obsessed with drawing pictures of mobile phones.
Kids play with mobile phone to be like me..it's a red flag

She arrives home daily from Montessori with miniature phones crafted beautifully on little pink post it size pads.

She declares: "It's my art, mammy.

She then holds the little drawings up to her ear, and has full-on business chats using her pretend phone.

Funny and cute - or testament to the fact she has a working mammy who is never off the phone? I'm conflicted; is her obsession with drawing iPads, phones and laptops my doing? As I work from home I tend to be on the phone a lot with a handset stuck to my ear.

I love my job, but the boundaries have blurred.

This story is from the June 04, 2023 edition of Irish Sunday Mirror.

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