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"  A new study released today in the journal Pediatrics reveals what we&amp;#039;ve known for a while now: Parents are more distracted by their mobile devices than ever. Researchers watched 55 caregivers and their children eating at fast-food restaurants, and 40 of them used their phones throughout the meal. Of those 40, 16 used them constantly. While one study does not a grand sweeping generalization make, we readily admit to being guilty of mobile distraction both at home and when we&amp;#039;re out. We&amp;#039;re just so programmed to scroll through our phones when we have downtime that it hardly feels like we an attention span at all anymore. Add to that the litany of things we have to accomplish in a given day and you&amp;#039;ve got the perfect recipe for &amp;quot;Mom ADD.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s not that we don&amp;#039;t want to have a two-hour tea party with our daughter and her stuffed animals, it&amp;#039;s that our brains sometimes won&amp;#039;t shut off long enough to let it happen. Sound familiar? Here are some more signs of Mom ADD: 1. You recently showed your kids Bambi for the first time, and while they were riveted, you were wondering if it had always been that slow and boring. 2. Your 3-year-old can easily identify Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram just from one look at your screen. 3. A watched pot never boils, but many a pot has boiled over while you were playing &amp;quot;Candy Crush.&amp;quot; 4. You&amp;#039;ve had this conversation more than once:  Kid: &amp;quot;But Mom, you said I could.&amp;quot; You: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t remember that.&amp;quot; Kid: &amp;quot;You were just about to hit your high score on &amp;quot;Flappy Bird,&amp;quot; and I said\u2026&amp;quot; 5. Your toddler playing quietly for more than 15 seconds makes you itch to check your &amp;quot;Words With Friends.&amp;quot; That leads to checking Facebook, and then suddenly your toddler is on the desk chair reaching for the letter opener. 6. You take out your phone for the totally legit purpose of taking a picture of your adorable child, and he says, &amp;quot;Mommy, phone away.&amp;quot; 7. When your kid plays &amp;quot;Mommy,&amp;quot; the &amp;quot;Mommy&amp;quot; is just on her phone all day.&amp;quot; 8. Your mouth is opening and closing, but you&amp;#039;re only pretending to sing along to &amp;quot;Let It Go&amp;quot; for the 398490384th time\u2014both for your sanity and so you can mentally work through your to-do list. 9. You have a Pinterest board called &amp;quot;10-Minute Recipes,&amp;quot; and everything on there really only takes five (thank God). 10. Your son noticed Jason Bateman was guest-starring on Yo Gabba Gabba before you did. 11. At this point, only wearing one earring is pretty much your &amp;quot;thing.&amp;quot; 12. You&amp;#039;ve wondered when your kids will be old enough to understand how funny it is when you say &amp;quot;hashtag Disney princess problems.&amp;quot; Follow REDBOOK on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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