近日，美国一位小学教师给她的二年级学生布置作文题目：你最不喜欢的发明是什么，为什么不喜欢？(describe something they wish had never been created)最终有四名孩子表示，希望手机从未被发明过。其中一位孩子写道：“我不喜欢手机，因为我的父母每天都在用手机...我讨厌妈妈的手机，并希望她永远不会有电话。”
I wish mum's phone was never invented
Mobile phones are bad for us. We know because every day there is a news story telling us so, or at least it can feel like that.
But no-one ever actually puts their phone down after hearing these reports, right?
What if children told you exactly how your WhatsApping, Instagramming, emailing and news-reading makes them feel?
"I hate my mum's phone and I wish she never had one," is what one primary school child wrote in a class assignment.
American school teacher Jen Adams Beason posted the comment on Facebook, and revealed that four out of 21 of her students said they wished mobile phones had never been invented.
Ms Beason, who lives in Louisiana[路易斯安那州], also posted a picture of the second grade (ages seven to eight) pupil's class work after she asked them to describe something they wish had never been created.
"I would say that I don't like the phone," one child wrote.
"I don't like the phone because my parents are on their phone every day. A phone is sometimes a really bad habit."
The student completed the work with a drawing of a mobile phone with a cross through it and a large sad face saying "I hate it".
The picture was posted last Friday and has been shared almost 170,000 times since, including by shocked parents who are stopping to think twice about their technology habits.
"Wow. Out of the mouths of babes! We are all guilty!" responded one user, Tracy Jenkins.
"Strong words for a second grader! Listen parents," added Sylvia Burton.
Another wrote, "That is so sad and convicting. Great reminder for us all to put those phones down and engage with our kids more."
Other teachers also joined the discussion to add their own experience of children's reaction to their parents' internet use.
"We had a class discussion about Facebook and every single one of the students said their parents spend more time on Facebook than they do talking to their child. It was very eye opening[1] for me," commented Abbey Fauntleroy.
[1]eye-opening：surprising, and teaching you new facts about life, people, etc. (adj.) 使瞠目吃惊的，很有启发的; 大开眼界
Some parents offered their personal experience of trying to address the problem.
Beau Stermer wrote that he has seen his two-year-old son reacting negatively to his use of his mobile phone: "I've noticed if he and I are playing and my phone rings for something at work, he has nothing to do with me after I get off the phone.
"It kills me. I have made an agreement with myself that if I am playing with him everything else can wait."
However, one mum pointed out that her teenagers were just as bad, often choosing their phone over family time.
A survey carried out in the US in 2017 reported that half of parents surveyed found that using technology disrupted interactions with their child three or more times a day, a phenomenon named "technoference[2]".
[2]technology interference，简称technoference，指的是电子产品等设备在日常生活中，侵入、中断和/或阻碍夫妻或家庭之间沟通交往的时间和方式。
来源：BBC
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