Hey, Adults! Texas Day Care Tells Parents to 'Get Off Your Phone!'

Updated Feb. 3: Juliana Farris Mazurkewicz is having her 15 minutes of fame, and says she's enjoying the ride. The Hockley, Texas, resident posted a photograph last week of a note she found taped to a window at the day care her daughter attends, and the response has been overwhelming.

"I've lost count of the number of media outlets, it has to be at least 30," she told Patch today. "The media experience has been overwhelming, but I'm enjoying the look into the "other side". It's interesting to see things from am inside perspective, and to see which media outlets share the story 'as is', and which present it in a more opinionated way."

Mazurkewicz has declined to identify the day care out of concern for the safety of the children.

"I'm taking it as a learning experience, and enjoying the ride," she says.

HOUSTON, TX — It was certainly direct.

"We have seen children trying to hand their parents their work they completed and the parent is on the phone. We have heard a child say 'Mommy, mommy, mommy ...' and the parent is paying more attention to their phone than their own child. It is appalling."

That's just a portion of the sign Juliana Farris Mazurkewicz found taped last Friday to a window of the day care center in Hockley, Texas, to which she takes her daughter.

"The owner posted the sign on the door," Mazurkewicz told ABC News. "I was surprised that they would be so bold, but also I liked it. I thought it was on point."

When she posted the note on her Facebook page, with the caption "Posted at the daycare today!", she was more than likely unaware of the frenzy it would cause. The photo has been shared more than a million times on Facebook, and today she is appearing on network television twice, on national and local broadcasts, according to her Facebook page. In addition, news outlets all over the country have contacted her about the story.

Most of the comments on Mazurkewicz' Facebook page posted in response to the photo agreed with her that the note was fine, but some of the comments took issue with the day care for its action.

"I am appalled that a day care would post this. I agree fully with the statement but abhor shaming," wrote Vicki Hagen Michel. "If this kind of shaming is done publicly, I hate to think of what happens to the children in their care."

"There's a big divide in the comments," Mazurkewicz told ABC News. "Half the people are saying it's not the day care's business what paying customers do, and the other half are saying that it's great they are looking after the children's well-being."

Mazurkewicz declined to provide the name of the day care center, citing the safety of her child, and the other children. Hockley is about 35 miles from downtown Houston.

The brouhaha caused by the note seems to have made the day care center rethink its approach , however. In a photo of the note posted yesterday on the Facebook page of Mazurkewicz' husband, Justin Mazurkewicz, the word "Please!" is clearly visible next to the note.

— Main image of note courtesy Juliana Farris Mazurkewicz Facebook page. Used with permission.