„Silicon Valley Parents Are Raising Their Kids Tech-Free — and It Should Be a Red Flag
Low-tech parenting has become a quiet staple among Silicon Valley moguls. “
„many of today’s parents working or living in the tech world are limiting — and sometimes outright banning — how much screen time their kids get.
The approach stems from parents seeing firsthand, either through their job, […] — how much time and effort goes into making digital technology irresistible.“
Some personal advice:
1. No smartphones before the age of 14 years (16 would be even better, but it’s not working anymore), so no smartphones for the younger siblings,
2. Use of laptops for school purposes or programming only in the living room, no computer in the rooms of the kids.
3. No phones during breakfast, lunch, dinner & the family meets for breakfast and dinner.
3. At night, the older teens leave their smartphones in the living room. All smartphones are switched off at night.
And: Please offer plenty of other alternatives: Books, magazines, instruments, sports, pencils and arts supplies to draw and paint, ….
And last but not least one important advice:
Allow your child to be bored!
And yes, my husband and I are/were in IT, too.
