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Modern Luddites: On Being a Digital Minimalist Family in a Tech-Saturated World
Advice from the author of Childhood Unplugged
It’s a noisy, chaotic household where solitude is in short supply, and often the house reverberates with the sound of their stampeding feet and roughhousing, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world because I believe they’re having the best possible childhood that I can provide. City dwellers cited the many resources at their disposal, like athletic facilities, museums, theatres, parks, public transit, etc., while rural families said they couldn’t imagine not having a pond and 40 acres of bush for kids to roam. Then I watch them meander outside and feed the little chipmunk they’ve trained to eat out of their hands this summer, and set up their backyard treehouse for an impromptu sleepover, and build an elaborate series of jumps in the driveway for their scooters—and I think, “Someday you’ll understand.”
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