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孩子的愿望：希望手机从未被发明

Mobile phones are bad for us. But no one ever actually puts their phone down after hearing these reports, right?

What if children told you exactly how your Ins, Twitter and news-reading make them feel?

"I hate my mum's phone and I wish she never had one," is what one primary school child wrote in a class assignment. American school teacher Jen Adams Beason posted the comment on Facebook, and revealed that four out of 21 of her students said they wished mobile phones had never been invented.

Ms Beason, who lives in Louisiana, also posted a picture of the second grade (ages seven to eight) children's class work after she asked them to describe something they wish had never been created. "I would say that I don't like the phone," one child wrote. "I don't like the phone because my parents are on their phone every day. A phone is sometimes a really bad habit." The student completed the work with a drawing of a mobile phone with a cross through it and a large sad face saying "I hate it".

The picture was posted last Friday and has been shared almost 170,000 times since, including by shocked parents who are stopping to think twice about their technology habits.

Other teachers also joined the discussion to add their own experience of children's reaction to their parents' Internet use. "We had a class discussion about Facebook and every single one of the students said their parents spend more time on Facebook than they do talking to their child. It was very eye-opening for me," commented Abbey Fauntleroy.