If they live glued to the phone, why don't they answer the phone? I miss the mystery of these generations (my two daughters), to this I also add the generation of my mom and dad, today two old men of 84 and 86 years old that end up becoming my children, Because I call them and they don't answer, they always have their cell phones on I don't know where, or on silent, I write them, and they don't look at the messages either, and they leave me the two stripes in blue on WhatsApp, but they spend their time on all the networks and online at the same time, and they don't even read my MSN text messages!!!! You tell me!

Same issue with my mother-in-law, my husband's mom I see her online, I call her, and she doesn't answer. She calls me back after about 3 hours and tells me "it hasn't rung" and she already has about 10 missed calls hahahahahahaha.

And the pressure I impose on my husband with the typical phrase "call you my love to see if they answer you".... No success 🤣. How do they control themselves to - when answering - not to make the claim with a high tone of voice that makes me the bad witch of the story?

Can't they see that I'm their mother and I get desperate when they don't answer?

Of course, they don't understand, because they are daughters, they don't have children yet, and they don't know what that anguish is. Poor my parents who didn't have cell phones when I was a childless girl too, in my time there were no cell phones, only landlines.

Many people have the phone glued to the palm of their hand.... almost EVERYBODY... but when you call... they don't answer... even worse.... they call you, you CAN'T pick up the phone because you're in the bathroom, and you left it outside, you go out, 20 seconds have passed, you call back... AND THEY DON'T ANSWER... Anyway...the problem is me... who else...?

That feeling is horrible, to the point that I thought, could it be that I am the TOXIC one because I want to know how they are? How was their day? And I said to myself noooo, I am not toxic, I am a mother... Enough! Total... they don't let go of the phone, but when you call them, it's bingo that they answer, I think there are a lot of children and parents, like that... almost all are the same, young, old and adults.

I always answer the calls because the phone is not just for talking, you do a lot of face-to-face and work stuff on the phone, and in my case, I almost don't like to talk. So just because I live glued to the phone does not mean that I have to answer calls; however, I always do.

This is a situation in which, I dare say, most of us are "modern-day " and never before have we been so isolated due to a poor culture of education in the use of technology".

My reflection is that family is the gateway to healing

If you use its power to know you, accept you and accept them, it becomes the most powerful medicine that you learn every day. There is no school where they teach us how to be parents. And in this learning, I just want my daughters to be happy. I wouldn't dare ask them to be perfect. They are unique beings with a particular mission and gifts, I want every step they take to bring them closer to their mission, each in their own lifestyle and profession.

Together forever. I may not have been the mother they expected, but I just know that I am proud of the women they are today. And I proudly say that I have no money to leave an inheritance to my daughters, I have only given them education and the value of service ❤. And I know that that will be enough because God knows what each one needs. I always remind them that to serve others we need TIME, more than money, and that they don't leave me in blue, and that they attend to me when I call them on the cell phone... this is difficult work to be parents.