Yes, I hide my phone from my baby. Apparently that makes me a bad parent.
I know how that sounds.
But I work from my phone. Sometimes I need to answer an email, check an order or deal with something while my baby is right beside me.
What started bothering me wasn’t really screen time. My baby wasn’t watching videos or using my phone.
It was the fact that he was constantly seeing ME holding one.
So I started hiding my phone inside a book when I needed to use it around him.
Some people think it’s clever. Others think it’s ridiculous, deceptive, or that I should simply put my phone away.
I’m obviously biased because this problem eventually led us to create Peek A Book, but I’m genuinely curious about the parenting side of the argument.
Is hiding the phone actually better than letting your baby see you use it?
Or are we overthinking this completely?