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Wait Until 8th
The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until the end of 8th grade.
Playing outdoors, spending time with friends, reading books and hanging out with family is happening a lot less to make room for hours of snap chatting, instagramming, and catching up on YouTube. Parents feel powerless in this uphill battle and need community support to help delay the ever-evolving presence of the smartphone in the classroom, social arena and family dinner table. Children are not ready for the comparison, self-doubt, violet imagery, toxic beauty content, dangerous challenges, online predators, and everyone else’s highlight reel of perfection on these platforms.
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