How can a mother—a symbol of devotion, love and care toward her children—pay more attention to her phone than to her baby? A lack of maternal interaction can have a very damaging effect on a child's development. Research shows that mothers talked four times less to their babies while engaging with their phones. Where did maternal instincts go? Cell phones are an addition to the phenomenon of the growing ego, which disconnects us from our children. In several places around the world, people don’t even want to have children anymore. The ego is growing in the world, and as a result, the natural connection and devotion between mother and child is weakening. In our times, we are discovering the evil of our egoistic nature more and more, and such a phenomenon as mothers paying more attention to their phones than to their babies adds to this discovery. Indeed, in order for us to truly recognize the evil of our egoistic nature, it needs to be a great evil. As such, we are arriving at the correct diagnosis of our major problem. Yet, what is the cure? We must not listen to our evil inclination. We must view our ego as existing outside of ourselves, instead of immediately approaching it as if it were “me.” It is not me. This is how we can identify our evil inclination and even correct it. It tells us to love only ourselves, so much so that we do not even love our babies as much anymore, never mind loving our spouses or parents. We need to exclude the ego from ourselves and cease identifying ourselves with it. How can we stop identifying ourselves with our ego? We need to cultivate more nurturing relations in our environment, where we relate more considerately and supportively to one another. We are all like relatives. We once used to feel instinctively close, and today we need to develop and rediscover our closeness anew. Mothers will then treat their children with love, but this love will be more conscious, aware, and it will emerge from a deeper feeling. Mothers will want to be closer to their babies and also to foster a basic caring connection to their family and relatives. The maternal instincts that have been disintegrating for many years will become revived in a new, more conscious and aware form. It will shift from instinct to awareness.