As though moments of your past lived on and bound you, regardless of any opposite intent you might have had.
“I am filled with hope for the generation to come that will once again be given permission to delight in a cloudless ski, a tender playmate, an afternoon of joy to swing upside down among the leaves. For a growing movement of children who will dance without TikTok. Who will live and love without commentary. Who will smile--widely and freely--without a filter. And I am filled with gratitude for the bold, brave, and unapologetic parents who will point their children to the heights of presence and admiration and innocence that Silicon Valley can never scale.”
― The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't
― The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't
“The truth is, today's polarizing platforms, and the information we consume on them, erode many of the values we hold dear. Rapid-fired consumption makes it difficult to pause to ask ourselves whether what we're seeing aligns with what we believe. And before we know it, the lines between truth and the internet become blurred.”
― The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't
― The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't
“But now, no matter how long my string is, every day just feels so sacred. And I don’t want to waste any time feeling sad or distracted. I just want to be grateful. To live as much life as possible.”
― The Measure
― The Measure
“It's never too late with truth. It stands outside time.”
― The Chance
― The Chance
“It's not about fearfully shooing our children away from screens, slamming laptops shut in fits of despair. It is, simply, opening the door wide to something better. It's the quiet recognition that every time we opt out of technology, we opt in to life. . . . After all, the opposite of opting in is not opting out. It's living free.”
― The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't
― The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't
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