Sir, – I was in the playground of a park last Sunday at the same time as six fathers, each alone with his child, three couples with children and three mothers with a child each. Five of the six young men spent all or nearly all of their time on a phone, distractedly moving a swing, half attending to a climber.
Each will have boasted that he brought his child to the playground; the self-deceiver really brought his phone and a small inconvenience. – Yours, etc,
ROSSA BUNWORTH,
Clontarf,
Dublin 3.
