Tech-addicted parents to kids: Don’t do as I do

Dacia Mitchell holds son Arthur Goss, 5 months, as she watches an iPad video produced by daughter Althea Goss, 7, at their home in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. The Goss household has set limitations on screen time that applies to adults as well as children. (Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area News Group/TNS)

SAN JOSE, California: They limit their kids' screen time, set filters on their browsers and banish digital devices from the dinner table. Then those same parents pick up their own iPhones to check e-mail, scan Twitter and update their Facebook statuses. 

Even as they fret that their kids may become device zombies, parents are setting a lousy example – and they know it.