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Re: Parental priorities in the park: Moms on cellphones, April 11 letter to the editor.
Letter-writer Judy Payne laments the moms at the park she saw talking on their cellphones while their precious little ones went wandering down the sidewalk.
This may be one of the few times that children get away from adult supervision and actually have some free time to be kids in a relatively unstructured atmosphere not organized and policed by parents or paid adults in the role of parents — e.g., home, school, after school, soccer, library time, sanctioned clubs, and the myriad activities that kids are not allowed to ride their bikes to anymore.
We adults seem to have the idea that the time children spend with other children is less meaningful and inspiring than that same time being mediated by taller people. I like to tell kids, Try and get through your life without talking to a person taller than a parking meter; if you do need to talk to people taller than a parking meter, don t believe hardly anything most of us say.
Rocky Hill, Denver
This letter was published in the April 13 edition.
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