Dr. Emily Jones

So I'll just, I mean, like my professional opinion, the longer you can delay, the better.

In my personal home, when Henry can drive, he will have a dumb cell phone.

He does have a watch, like a smart watch that we program all the numbers into for him to be able to call.

It's a good thing to have.

But no, he already knows that.

And there are already, you know, like he's surrounded by kids at church and extracurriculars in school that already have them.

And he's just already made his peace with like, yeah, that's not gonna be my story.

Well, I sort of told Henry, I'm like, our goal is to be set apart because, you know, we're Christians.

And so, like, our goal is to be set apart.

So, like, consider this practice of being set apart and it being uncomfortable and unfair.

for you and like sometimes you might get left out and that's okay but i'm also thankful that like we have families that have similar views as we do and other people have phones for different reasons they may have family situations or work situations where that's needed for our family that's not something we need right now and that's okay and so but it's not just it's not just a phone that's the problem like kids have ipads and tablets and laptops and all of those things

My kids do have iPads.

We bought them last year.

Henry is 11 and Hadley is six.

They have little Amazon fire tablets, but we also have, again, I know too much for my job.

And so like, there's no internet access on it.

And they don't know our wifi password.

So they can't get on.

So if we go on a trip, we have to download all of their Disney movies before we get on the road, if they're going to watch it, but we keep those in our bedroom.

And they don't have access to any of that in the house without us.