Heads out of those phones parents!
That is the message one primary school actually put up outside their premises.
The Telegraph reports that the headmistress of St Josephs RC Primary school in Middlesbrough has chastised phone-obsessed parents with a sign warning them to greet their children with a smile at the end of the day rather than staring at their screens.
The sign is at all three entrance gates to the school to dissuade social media loving parents to put down the device and pay full attention to their children as they come out.
The signs say: “Greet your child with a smile, not a mobile” and feature a figure with mobile to their ear, crossed out in a red circle.
And many of the parents have hailed it as a fantastic idea.
Last year, research warned that parents’ immersion in smartphones has left some children starting primary school unable to hold conversations with many lack social skills and speech problems.
What do you think of this idea? Nanny state-esque or a good incentive to remind parents to be present in the moment?
