You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
The real meditative practice is to open up to the full range of what happens in life. And parenting is a fantastic arena for doing that kind of spiritual training. It's as much a potential door into enlightenment as anything else.
When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.