Thanks for the comment. I agree that as she gets older she needs to be more self sufficient. Even now she plays by herself in small spurts. The intent of my post wasn't to insinuate that she must always actively feel she's the most important thing in the world, just that if it's a time when we should be actively engaging, say at the dinner table, we should do that, and I, nor she when she gets older, should be preoccupied by trivial "screen time."