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No, Really, You Don't Have To Play With Your Kid At The Playground

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19 hours ago

A moment that lives rent-free in my head was this time I went to the playground with my children when they were quite young — probably 5 and 3. They toddled off to do their thing and I sat down to catch up on Instagram for a bit. From somewhere a few yards away from me, I heard a scoff and turned to see an older woman talking to someone else. “It’s so sad,” she said, and it was clear she was being loud enough for me to hear her. “Parents today are so buried in their phones they’re missing their kids’ entire childhood.” I’m pretty sure in that moment I turned into the White Guy Blinking meme.I...

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