A curious toddler loves to play…especially with his mommy’s smartphone! When Mommy finds him using her phone without permission, it’s the perfect teaching moment.

Mommy reminds her little one that what matters most in life is time together filled with love and attention. Her simple reminder: Put down our phones.

In today’s modern society a high percentage of the population have smartphones, or mini computers that you can also make a phone call on!!

In, My Toddler Life, the toddler is doing all the things a little child should be doing. Painting, reading, playing, and whilst mum is present she is not playing with him but taking his photo, and video recording him. Each page has the image of the phone, and you can see what the toddler is doing via the screen.

When mum puts the phone down, the toddler decides he wants to play with it and starts takes selfies, etc. He is only copying what mum has been doing.

Whilst it is great that parents want to capture their child’s early life at every opportunity, what is happening is that you see that child through the screen on your phone, not the actual child right in front of you. Also, whilst you may be present in the room, you are not interacting, getting down to your child’s level and just playing together.

In futures to come there will be a generation of children that will be able to look back on their childhood via a series of photos and videos, but not by memories made together with their families.

Although this is a children’s picture book, the message is purely for adults. Yes, the child takes his mum’s phone, but the book isn’t about him taking the phone, but more about why he has taken it – He wants to be just like mum, he sees it as the norm.

My Toddler Life is a lovely, brightly coloured book with a wonderful message, that hopefully will come across loud and clear, ‘Put down your phone and play with your child’. Believe me, time goes so fast and they won’t be little for long.

Corine Dehghanpisheh is an award winning author, whose own family life serves as inspiration for her fun and engaging children’s books. She holds a Master’s Degree in Creative Arts Therapy & Creativity Development from Pratt Institute in New York City.

Ms. Dehghanpisheh currently resides in Dallas, Texas with her family. There she continues to write the #BabyLove series, focused on the blending of modern technologies with classically familiar child raising situations.

www.booksbycorined.com
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