Everyone gets annoyed by mothers who are glued to their phones.instead of looking after her child at the playground. After all, while she is scrolling through her Instagram feed, the child is having a great time: eating sand and cigarette butts, pulling a stray cat by the tail, teasing other kids or just splashing in a puddle. But at home, at home, you can finally allow yourself to be alone with your phone for a while! There, no one will look at you with undisguised disgust just because you wanted to look out of the daily maternal routine at least into the virtual world. 37-year-old Ellen Porritt, the mother of a two-year-old rascal named Zeb, thought so too. Precisely in the past tense. Because the phone is now a forbidden pastime for her. It is absolutely forbidden to let her baby out of her sight. It is more expensive for herself. “I was gone from him for only two minutes! I got a call from work, and I left the room so that Zeb would not interfere with talking. He was watching TV, nothing foreshadowed trouble. “I couldn’t even imagine that my son would create a small apocalypse in a single room,” the woman wrote on her Instagram. During the two minutes that Ellen was on the phone, Zeb really managed to do a lot. For example, he demonstrated his meticulous nature. The boy found a can of black paint and used it for its intended purpose: he carefully smeared it on the carpet, sofa, walls, stairs, ruined all of his older sister’s posters, and painted himself. He didn’t even spare the family pet: the red dog turned considerably darker. “Who did this?” the mother asked the obvious question in horror. “Me!” the little boy answered proudly. “My husband said that Jackson Pollock (avant-garde artist. — Ed.) must have had some fun in our living room. We are expecting our third child now, and we don’t need any extra expenses on repairs. But Zeb clearly didn’t ruin everything on purpose. "He didn't realize he was doing anything wrong," Ellen said, and we breathed a sigh of relief: the boy wouldn't be punished for his pranks. But they would probably tell him that paints are not toys for children.
