What about younger children who cannot decide by themselves? Where the protection becomes spying?
Some parents are exaggeratedly caring. They use safety apps because they want to protect their children whatever it takes.
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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