According to Dictionary.com, shelter is “anything resorted to for help, relief, or escape.” It's clear that adults take refuge in their phones in public situations, but the scene described above is that of a child taking refuge in their phone at home. Children must be able to take refuge with their parents. Cell phones harm the delicate relationship between child and parent. If children learn from a young age to take refuge in their phones, when they are older and have serious problems, they will not be able to talk comfortably to their parents. Some may say that technology has brought us closer: “The presence of the cell phone, which rings especially if my daughter calls, keeps me on alert all day” (Turkle 122). Cell phones do provide a constant connection with family members in an emergency, but people have become too attached to their cell phones. A television producer, accustomed to being connected to the world via her cell phone and Palm device, revealed that for her, the interior spaces of the Palm were where she resided: "When my Palm crashed, it was like death. It was more than I could bear. I felt like I had lost my mind. » (quoted in Turkle