Parents these days

Yesterday I was walking up Bugroshav street to meet my friend at Dizengoff Center. Reading her text, I hear a BOOM in the background. I look up and a two-year-old girl landed facedown on the cement. I am not surprised. Her mother, who was sitting on a bench on her cell phone, didn’t budge. Her father, also on the cell phone, at least helped the little girl up but neither of them hung up the phones. I don’t know which is worse: the mother who didn’t move a muscle or the fact that they both remained on their cell phones…