Where is the line your family won’t cross?
This isn’t controversial, your child should not have access to the internet everywhere at all times.
The Smart Families Mission
It is the mission of Smart Families to help communities create a happier, healthier and more intentional lifestyle for families that engage with technology in a manner that is respectful of our innate human dignity.
We provide world class education on neuroscience and physiology to both parents and children to help them navigate the dangers surrounding all forms of manipulative uses of information technology. We empower families with the practical support and the leadership required to change the status quo.
One family cannot do this alone. We know that almost all parents already want to do this, but current trends show they are succumbing earlier and earlier to the incrementalism of technology creep and peer pressure. There is strength in numbers. The first step is to create a unified community at your school with common expectations of no smartphones until at least after 8th grade.
How We Started
A letter from our Co-Founder, Jennifer Kuzma.
OUR CHILDREN DESERVE AUTHENTIC HUMAN CONNECTIONS BECAUSE OF THEIR INNATE HUMAN DIGNITY
Reasons to delay giving your child(ren) a smartphone.
Smartphones are engineered to be addictive
Digital addiction during childhood and adolescence causes functional damage to the brain.
Smartphones increase anxiety and depression
8th graders who use social media are 27% more likely to be depressed.
Smartphones expose children to pornography
The average age of first exposure is 12 years old with some reporting as young as 7. Pornography induces the same dopamine response as cocaine.
