Today, the obituary section of our local newspaper had a picture of a deceased woman in her 40s. What caught my attention wasn’t the fact that she was so young, but that the picture her family chose to furnish to the newspaper was one of her talking on a cell phone. I couldn’t help but wonder if the way they remembered her was that she always had a cell phone to her ear.
I don’t know about you, but that certainly isn’t the way I want to be remembered, but I fear that, to our families, more and more of us will be remembered exactly that way.
A few days ago, as I drove toward town, I noticed a young mother with 3 small children at a bus stop. As we commonly see these days, the mother was engrossed in a phone call, and, at the same time, busily shoving the little ones away with her other hand as they vied for her attention. I couldn’t help but wonder if this is the new definition of mothering.
How many times, lately, have you seen young women in a shopping mall, chattering away on their cell phones as her children followed her from shop to shop? If the kids get too loud to suit her, or try to get her attention, she angrily covers the phone with one hand and yells, “Be quiet! Can’t you see I’m on the phone?”
It reminds me of a time long ago when I took my 4-year-old with me to visit a friend. I had taught her not to interrupt when others were talking so I was a bit upset when she had been standing next to my chair for a while, and then interrupted something I was saying to our hostess. “Sherry, don’t you remember what I told you about waiting until someone else quit talking before you asked a question?
“Yes Mama,” she said, “but you never quit talking.”
I think these modern kids who see their moms, (and, in some cases, their dads), constantly on the phone must feel the same way my little girl felt that day. Even worse, what impression are they getting about their own importance as people when all day long, unseen people on the phone get more attention from their parents than they do?
Cell phones are a great invention. I like the idea of being able to call for help if my car breaks down, or even to ask my husband if he’d mind putting the roast in the oven because I’m running a little late, but I draw the line at walking around town with a phone glued to my ear like so many young parents seem to do today.
If you are one of the guilty ones who put daily phone conversations with your friends above the needs of your children, maybe it’s time to take another look at your priorities. After all, until just a short time ago, most of us managed to make it to the store and back without even owning a cell phone.
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