Are Creators of addictive tech banning it from their homes ?
What about younger children who cannot decide by themselves ? Where the protection becomes spying ?
Bill Gates “ We don ’ t have cell phones at the table when we are having a meal , we didn ’ t give our kids cell phones until they were 14 and they complained other kids got them earlier ,”
Marc Cuban “ I have installed Cisco routers ... I have management software . So , it says what apps they ’ re using so I can shut off their phone activity ,” Cuban says . “ I ’ m sneaky as can be . And she hates it . That ’ s the downside of having a geeky dad , you know . I can figure all this stuff out .” “ I ’ m not going to lie , I paid my son $ 150 to not watch those videos for two months ,” said Cuban . “ But he could earn if he watched math videos , or did math problems for me , he could earn time to watch Minecraft videos .”
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian ( who , in September , had daughter Alexis with his wife , Serena Williams ) “ My wife and I both want her to know what it ’ s like to have limits on tech … I do look forward to playing video games with her when she ’ s older , but it ’ s really important that she gets time to just be with her thoughts and be with her blocks and be with her toys , so we ’ ll be regulating it pretty heavily .”
Apple CEO Tim Cook “ I don ’ t have a kid , but I have a nephew that I put some boundaries on ,” Cook
said , according to The Guardian . Cook ’ s nephew is
about 13 . “ There are some things that I won ’ t allow ; I don ’ t want them on a social network .”
Google CEO Sundar Pichai " At home , our television is not easily accessible , so that there is ' activation energy ' before you can easily go watch TV ," " I ' m genuinely conflicted , because I see what my kids learn from all this ."
Snapchat cofounder and CEO Evan Spiegel ( Whose son Flynn is allowed just 90 minutes a week ) " I think the more interesting conversation to have is really around the quality of that screen time ,".
Some parents are exaggeratedly caring . They use safety apps because they want to protect their children whatever it takes .
Ê Finding a balanced approach The parents should find the right way how to protect their children instead of spying them or instead of being too lax .
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