Children's conduct and self-esteem

The use of smartphones has become a potentially addictive practice. Parental smartphone addiction is likely to have far-reaching implications for children's conduct. This article investigates the intricacies and challenges addiction, with special emphasis on children behavior problems their self-esteem. Moreover, study investigated mean differences in variables across demographic variables. survey was conducted sample 500 parents (250 mothers& 250 fathers) age range 6-13 years by using convenient sampling techniques from different schools located Rawalpindi Wah Cantt. Out parents, 300 (192mothers & 108 were identified as having problem cutoff scores (31=males&33=females) SAS-short version (Kwon, Kim, Cho Yang, 2013).After this (Boys =152, Girls= 148) group given set questionnaires (The Pediatric Symptom Checklist , Murphy et al. 1996, Rosenberg self-esteem scale ,Rosenberg, 1965). findings revealed significant positive association between parental addictions child behavioral problems. Furthermore, negative links