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). | 