"Mamma och pappa, vänligen gå av telefonen, du traumatiserande mig!"

That's Swedish (or so Google (News - Alert) Translate says) for, "Mommy and Daddy, please get off the phone, you're traumatizing me!" According to a survey by YouGov, an international internet-based market research firm, its along the lines of what more than a third of children in Sweden are saying.

The survey reveals that 33 percent of parents in Sweden's major urban areas are receiving complaints from their tots about their excessive phone usage. It sounds familiar, doesn't it? But usually it's the other way around. We often hear of how Mommy Dearest is distressed that her 13 year-old Becky won't stop texting and scrolling through the gobs of social media outlets on her mobile device. Evidently, the complaint goes both ways, but the kids may feel it more severely and at a much more precarious time of human development. Dr. Roland Sennerstam, a pediatrician in Sweden, says that parents perpetually distracted by their smartphones could be harming their children's emotional development. Constantly choosing time on your smartphone over time with your child, is exactly that. Even if your kid is right next to you, you're mentally elsewhere, and that hurts kids.

Not only might kids be susceptible to unhealthy emotions because of parental distraction, very young ones could have a problem developing language skills. "Even in the first year, I encourage parents to use language during their daily activities, and give their children new words all the time," Sennerstam says "If parents are more interested in using their mobile phones, I think it will have a bad effect on the language development of their children."

Other experts don't think the problem is so serious. Pediatrician and author Lars Gustafsson, who speaks of the dangers of phone addiction, suggests that children can handle parental distraction, stating in a blog post: "Children have experienced parents who are absent in spirit at all times and in all families,. Adults have the right to occasionally get a brief moment for themselves. You just have to find the proper balance, and the question is whether mobiles have shifted the balance in the wrong direction. Yes, maybe."

Whether it's doing damage to your kid or not, it seems smartphone addiction is something that no parent can be proud of.