A primary school has put up signs to warn phone-obsessed parents to greet their children with a smile at the end of the day rather than staring at their screens.

 

英国一所小学树立了告示牌，警告“手机控”家长们晚上接孩子放学时要面带微笑迎接自己的孩子，而不是盯着手机屏幕。
 

 

It has become a common sight at the school gates to see children running up to their parents, only to find them engrossed¹ in composing a text message, a phone call, or scrolling² through Facebook.

 

Now the headmistress at St Joseph's RC Primary School, in Middlesbrough, has erected³ the signs at all three entrances to the school in an attempted crack down.

 

The signs say: "Greet your child with a smile, not a mobile" and feature a figure with mobile to their ear, crossed out in a red circle.

 

Liz King, headmistress at St Joseph's, said: "We are trying to develop our speaking and listening in school and we thought it was a really simple way to get the message across.

 

"It wasn't an issue among our parents, it just emphasises that speaking and listening helps the children to have discussions."

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