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• Why the iPhone Is Bad for Your iOrphans

  As 6 p.m. rolls around and the new iPhone goes on sale, I can only sit back and thank my lucky stars Emmeline is not a teenager -- because she would be acting very much like I have been in the past few days. "I waaaaah-nt wuuuuuu-ne!" And then my wife would have to say "No, god damnit, NO!" to two of us. All day. We've written before about why every parent needs an iPhone, but I'm beginning to have second thoughts. It's not just that at $600 -- plus monthly charges that could reach $80 or more -- I would have to sell a kidney on the black market to buy it. (And I can only imagine having more than one teen in the house who simply has. to. have. one. TODAY! or risk throwing a tantrum along the lines of this.) It's that I'm already too addicted to the Internet as it is, and I know my daughter would suffer even more if I had a bundle of Intertubes in my pocket. Read More... Posted Jun 29 2007, 06:00 PM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, inventions, ignoring kids

• Attack of the Sanctimommy: Don't Talk on the Cell Phone, Loser

  We all have an inner sanctimommy.  Some of us are simply better at hiding it than others.  You recognize her by the tilted head, the squinty eyes, the slightly disappointed turn of the mouth. In this edition, someone is very very troubled by the naughty parents talking on cell phones and Ignoring! Their! Children! The horror!! The money quote: Kids get short-changed when Mommy is talking to a person on the phone instead of the child right there. Do you know? If we focused all of our attention every living second of each day on our kids it still wouldn't be enough? This doesn't mean that one should ignore the child.  But it does mean that sometimes parents need to multi-task.  How the hell else are those doctor's appointments going to get made?  Posted Jun 11 2007, 11:41 AM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: cell phones, Mom 101, ignoring kids, parental cell phone usage, perfect mothers, sancti-mommy