Do your children have to vie with your smartphone for your attention in the evenings? Do you feel twitchy in the mornings if you haven’t checked your messages? Having pooh-poohed them a couple of years ago, have you embraced the selfie (ironically, of course)? Then perhaps it’s not your children’s use of technology that you should be worrying about, but your own.
Along with David Cameron — who last week took his first selfie-stick photo — we have bought in to selfie culture. At first we thought selfies vulgar, un-British, then we relented, accepted them as harmless fun. And, despite the National Gallery, and lately, the Wimbledon Championships, banning selfie sticks because of “nuisance value”, we’re still fans. We have accepted our phones are our