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.
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