Smartphone Addicts

During our Ladakh vacation, it was annoying to find our 11 yo daughter hooked onto the phone every time we reached the hotel. When we asked our guide cum driver in Ladakh, he confirmed that his kids too loved their apps.

 

We were put up at Nubra Valley for a couple of days. We noticed very few people lived there, and so there were practically no vehicles on the road most of the time. When we were walking around the place in the evening, we saw a 2 or so year-old toddler on the street, his back towards us. He seemed oblivious to the fact that his parents weren’t anywhere around. Strange. Just then, a vehicle came, saw the toddler on the street, stopped, and honked. The startled kid looked back, and we saw what had been holding his attention all this while, and the reason why he didn’t notice his parents weren’t hold – yes, a smartphone. He then quickly spotted his mother and went running to her, the precious phone clutched tightly. प्राण जाये पर वचन smartphone ना जाये.

 

His mother lifted him up and started to chide him. She couldn’t see his face while she was doing this – he had been lifted the way toddlers are lifted, chest to chest. That resulted in two things - his hands were free, and they were behind his mother’s back. So even as she continued to scold him on being careless and what might have happened, our guy was already back on the smartphone…