Child Perceptions of Parent Media Use

[Dr. Brandon McDaniel]: All this attachment to our devices, the fact that they’re around us all the time, all of that, we can have these various intrusions and interruptions that can take place in our face-to-face time, which we call “technoference,” which is this, just technology and interference put together. And it’s also called “phubbing,” which is like a specific form of “technoference” that deals with phones, “phones snubbing.” And so that can, that can happen. And now as that starts to happen, our children and teens, they notice that this is happening. And so there’s some quick stats here. We’ve got 28% of them feeling like their parents are addicted to their device. 33% wish their parents would spend less time on the device. Even 51% feeling like their parents are distracted during conversations they are having with their parent. So it’s definitely happening and they’re definitely noticing.