Teach Kids About Tech and Set Limits: Why I Recommend Both

Someone in the live chat asked why we don't just teach children to use devices well instead of

banning them. It's a fair question and I think the premise is sound. My answer is that it depends

on the device.

A phone is not usually the thing you are protecting a child from. It's a door to other things, and

those things are what need restricting. Some of them I don't think have a safe version at any age:

pornography, social media, anonymous chat, anything running an addictive algorithm.

So it isn't teach or restrict. It's both. Restrict the things that don't have a good version, and

for everything you do hand them, teach them how to use it. Education is a dependency for anything

that matters, whether it's a hammer or an app.

Full livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmj519CTr9o