Don Matthews

Mobiles More Important Than Children

by Don Matthews

Sunday 24th February 2019 9:09 pm

Mobiles More Important than Children

I've just read a letter to the paper

Which made me feel angry and sad

This grand-dad took his grand-kids to swim school

Looking round made him sad, also mad

From the beginning to the end of the lesson

Parents weren't interested in their child

Excited kids beaming up for approval

Saw parents all glued to mobiles

We've become so addicted to technology

We've forgotten what's important in life

Mobiles have become more important than children

No wonder we're having so such strife

Don Matthews December 2018

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Funny Yes. Serious Very. Mobile Phone Addiction ►

Comments

M.C. Newberry

Sun 24th Feb 2019 16:08

I work on the basis that these gadgets should be our servants and
not our masters and consider the mobile phone in its simplest form to be a very handy/valuable asset in many situations met in
life, in particular (in the car?) when in trouble! But I also see what
is going on around me, as just about anybody of any age seems
fixated on/attached to the latest gizmo in their hands and the way
they wander along apparently oblivious to what is going on around
them. A mugger's heaven and also a recipe for accidents of all
sorts...as KJ describes in his comment. As the old adage goes:
there's a time and place for everything. It's a pity so many people
don't possess either the sense or self-discipline to understand that.

<Deleted User> (18980)

Sun 24th Feb 2019 10:46

Typing this on my mobile phone whilst watching TV. We're all as bad.

keith jeffries

Sun 24th Feb 2019 10:10

Don,

This is a ubiquitous problem which faces all societies as we become more entrenched in technology and few seem to realise the dangers that lie ahead. I recently saw a woman at the supermarked check out with two children, one in the trolley and the other loose. She was trying to load her shopping into bags, pay the cashier and have a conversation on her moble all at the same time. Another young woman I saw on her mobile phone was so engrossed in her mobile chat that she walked into a lamp post. We sit on public transport and are forced to hear other people´s telephone conversations. My nephew has a play station and when in use he is oblivious to other people and wont even say good morning. I am glad to have been brought up in a different age.

An interesting but sad poem.
Thank you
Keith

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