Screen and not heard?

A chara, – The phrase “children should be seen and not heard” was often said to me when I was little. Now, at bus stops, restaurants, waiting rooms, I see innumerable children, pre-teens and adolescents looking at screens rather than engaging with their environment. Has the voice or our previous generation become the reality of the present? – Is mise,

MEABH NÍ DHÍARMADA,

Bennettsbridge,

Co Kilkenny.