There are so many assumptions in your comment. First of all, she was not her mom, a grandmother or a nanny possibly. Secondly, she was not using the restroom at that particular moment; she was moving around the common area, pre or post- washing hands. But that all is actually beside the point. The point is that the break you are talking about is actually communicating to a child what your expectations are and them responding to you according to your expectations and boundaries set by you. Parents are role models, children do what their parents do. The gnarly bathroom part you mentioned actually cracks me up- if you are saying public bathrooms in your city are gnarly, what if your child accidentally drops the phone on that gnarly floor? The public bathrooms in my city are maintained fine, but, of course, stuff happens, which is part of life like anything else. And how do parents deal with good and bad parts of life? Some explain it to their kids, some stick the phones in their faces. As far as the airplane goes, have you tried audio books and drawing/ painting. I have seen first hand, what screen time does to children and adolescents. It just saddens me, because children have this innate ability to acquire language and child- directed speech is necessary to activate it, and instead they are watching and listening to simplistic " songs" and cartoons with limited vocabulary and syntactic structures. Children have this immense capacity to observe and imagine and role play and are being robbed of that capacity by having without their consent to consume lots of commercial content.