The Phone Obsession That's Hurting Our Kids' Attachments A new study published in Frontiers in Psychology has shed light on a worrying trend: parents who are glued to their phones may be inadvertently harming their children's attachment security.
This is not just about fleeting feelings of guilt when kids get jealous of our phone use, but also the long term consequences of our behavior.
The study surveyed 600 teenagers aged 12 17 and found a correlation between kids who perceived their parents as distracted by their phones and those who reported indicators of insecure attachment.