A new global survey suggests parents have something new to feel guilty about when it comes to smartphones and their children. There’s a lot to feel guilty about these days as a parent: working too much to spend time with your children; feeding the aforementioned children a steady diet of pizza, peanut butter sandwiches and Pepperidge Farm Goldfish; ruining everyone else’s plane ride. Perhaps no source of parental guilt, however, gets more attention these days — when it can get our attention, that is — than the overuse of electronic devices. Smartphones have now been implicated in more developmental and relationship problems than Charlie Sheen. And while the instinct as a parent is to focus on what our children are focusing on — increasingly, pixilated screens a few inches from their faces — it might be about time we focused on doing something more about the screen that is only a few inches from our own faces … after you finish this article, naturally (your kids will be fine for another minute). According to a new, large online survey of parents across the globe, parents have something new to feel guilty about: their own phones. Sixty percent of parents felt bad for using their phone around their kids, and 36 percent had been told off by their own children for too much phone time. | 