My daughter made a mobile on the weekend trip. It was surprisingly difficult for me than for her.

• My daughter made a mobile wild Wilderness trip for a weekend.

• It was a great way for you to take off and get to know other girls.

• It was unexpectedly difficult for me if I was unable to write or call an SMS if I felt like it.

My daughter recently made a scout for a girl Camping trip. They went climbing and hiking and had a weekend full of adventures.

To my delight (although less to your!) Cell phones were no longer. It should help the girls get to know each other better. I am also sure that it was easier for the personnel not to worry that girls fall, broken, broken or lost their phones when exploring girls. More practical, the one Cell service Wasn’t good where they camped anyway.

What I hadn’t expected was how difficult it would be for me not to reach my daughter immediately.

I am so glad that my daughter has a few screen -free weekends

Like most of the parents I know, I’m worried about how much time my children spend their phones. My daughter is in middle school and she does not remember a world without smartphones. I try to teach her to have one Healthy relationship with technology. It’s not all bad, but I want her to have a lot of offline time.

I was always aware that I tried to limit their screen time and that of their older siblings. I tried to find many analogous activities for you when you were younger. I encouraged her to try it Activities after school Hopefully that would keep you active and entertained. I wanted them to spend time with people in real life instead of mostly online.

But it is clear to me that I was not so aware of whether I was to my smartphone myself at the same time.

I hadn’t expected it to bother me that I couldn’t reach her

This weekend I was everything from slightly angry to almost anxious that I couldn’t talk to my daughter during her trip.

I would write something funny to her and remember that she wouldn’t see it until she was at home. The staff had opportunities to reach us in an emergency, but I was still worried about whether she made it safely to the campsite.

I catastrophic. I have held all sorts of ridiculous but still scary scenarios in my head at night when I tried to sleep.

My reaction surprised me completely. I am a 80s child. I come from the generation that was famous to go outside to drive bicycles with our friends until it got dark. I have not grown to communicate with my parents at any moment.

When I got an accident that made my car in total shortly after the college, I waited until our planned weekly call to mention it to my parents. Now I can’t imagine that my children will not call me in the same situation immediately.

I like that phones think that I know where everyone is and that they can call for help in an emergency. Some of my children have theirs Driver licensesAnd I feel better when you know that you can check in when you arrive somewhere.

But when I couldn’t immediately contact my daughter, how I was used to it really threw me. I didn’t like it a bit.

I try to make some changes

I think a large part of my problem was that I got used to my phone. Gradually I checked it more and more without realizing it. I’m not a productive poster, but I scroll a lot to see what everyone else posts. I got used to Grip for my cell phone And an SMS, whatever I think, who I want, immediately. And I am used to getting an answer from you immediately.

My phone is not all bad. I get pictures of my expanded family in our group chats and write my girlfriend abroad as if she were still living here. I read books about it. I have a terrible sense of direction, so I definitely need it to navigate.

But when I am at the point where a weekend I didn’t write my daughter, it is a bad sign.

Now I try to leave my cell phone in the other room at the weekend and to spend time offline. I put my phone down and look at people while talking to me. Summer is currently. So if we are on a hike or do something as a family, I try to put my phone away and to deal with everyone. I also take out weekends Social media.

I am sure that it will be a lifelong challenge to compensate for the good and bad parts of a smartphone. I hope I can remain aware of when it has too much foot in my life and has set up again. Or maybe sometimes I only need a long camping trip somewhere without cell service.

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