Is it Bad to Use My Phone in Front of Kids?

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🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Is it Bad to Use My Phone in Front of Kids? - Liz is concerned about how much her children see her using her iPhone and wonders if it will lead to bad habits in them. - Dr. Laura: "The more kids watch adults relying on phones, the more prone they will be to abuse them." | To participate on the radio program; call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment - https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment. Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from two to five PM Eastern time on serious XM triumph 11.
0:11.0	Liz, welcome to the program.
0:13.0	Hi Dr. Law, how are you today?
0:15.0	Good. What can I do for you?
0:18.0	My question today has to do with my children and how I use my iPhone around them. I have a year and a half year old and a 11 month or 11 week old excuse me, she's only a couple of months old.
0:34.0	And I just concerned about how much my kids see me on my phone, even though I'm not on their why should you even be on your phone?
0:44.0	Why are you even on the phone? I remember the days when phones, madam were used to receive and to send phone calls.
0:52.0	Exactly. That's my concern.
0:54.0	What did parents do then? Were they just holding onto the phone while it was attached to the wall?
0:59.0	I suppose they were analog calendars and just, you know, just the world runs for my phone these days and I do.
1:07.0	I do run through your phone. I have a big calendar and I write on it. It's on a big table in the kitchen and I write on it.
1:16.0	What's going to happen that day? You don't have to be on the phone to do that. The more the kids see you with the phone, the more they will abuse it.
1:27.0	Oh, they don't I don't want them to touch it.
1:31.0	In the future. They will abuse the phone. You shouldn't be buying them at all.
1:37.0	No, I agree with you. Yeah, I don't like when kids have phones.
1:43.0	Well, can you give me your feedback about how you think this is because we're first generation parents here with with iPhones and their kids and I'm intentional.
1:55.0	I have an iPhone next to me. I'm on the air. It's on off.
2:00.0	When I get off the air, I'll turn it on. I'll see if there are any emails, any texts, any phone calls. If not, I leave it somewhere in the house and get busy with life.
2:11.0	I will hear a phone call. I will hear a text. I will hear an email. Otherwise, I'm not touching my phone.
2:23.0	I think it is incredibly neurotic to be walking around with the phone all the time.
2:30.0	It's like sucking your thumb.
2:34.0	For adults, it's like sucking their thumbs. They have to reassurance.
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