How Do Phones Affect The Family

the phone up to your face and talking but in reality it is just as bad there has been many studies to prove this theory and all of them point to the same answer that hands free talking on the phone is just as bad as if you were holding it in your hand. When you are talking on the phone to a person you are more aware of what that person is saying then what is happening all around you. Many people say it’s just like if you were talking to someone in the vehicle with you. The big difference is that if someone is in the car with you they can look at the surroundings and help make sure to keep the driver safe with the person talking on the phone it is on them to watch there soundings and they can not to that to their best abilities while they are …show more content…
According to Dr. Jenny Radesky, one summer she studied fifty-five different types of parents and their young kids at fast food restaurants. “They looked at it, scrolled on it and typed for most of the meal, only putting it down intermittently” (Radesky, Jenny). In this study they asked children how they feel about their parents using phones all the time and not paying attention to them some of the words that kept popping up where that they felt sad, lonely, and mad. By parents using their phones instead of talking to their family about how their day went it makes the children feel less important than their parent’s phones. Which is not a good thing for a child to think that his or her parents phones are more important than they are to the parents. This shows you that smart phones have a bigger impact in our families than you think. Phones are so much a part of people’s lives that they can not even put them down for a thirty minute dinner with their family. Back when cell phones were just starting to become a big thing you would have never caught a smart phone out at a dinner table. Most teens did not even have a smart phone until they could afford to buy one or started driving now there are elementary school kids having smart phones. So now there are younger kids with smart phones and less family time. Very rarely do you see families out playing in their yards with their kids. One good reason as to why that does not happen anymore is because teens and younger children would rather play on their smart phones and be on social media and talking to their friends then spending time with their families. Which could cause problems when the younger children get into their teenage years because they will not know how to talk to their parents if they need to talk to them. This could cause them to do things they should do and when they do them try and lie and