Steve Jobs Didn’t Let His Kids Use iPhones Or iPads: Here’s Why Read

Steve Jobs wouldn’t, and for good reason too.

New York Times reporter Nick Bilton, in a Sunday article, said he once assumingly asked Jobs, “So your kids must love the iPad?”

Jobs responded:

“They haven’t used it. We are trying to limit how much technology our kids use at home.”

Especially in Silicon Valley, there is actually a trend of tech engineers and execs who protect their kids from technology. They even send their kids to non – tech schools where computers aren’t found anywhere because they only focus on hands – on learning, like the Waldorf School in Los Altos.

There is a quote that was highlighted in The Times by Chris Anderson, a father of five and CEO of 3D Robotics. He gave an explanation what drives those who work in tech to keep it from their kids.

“My kids accuse my wife and me of being overly concerned and fascists about tech, and they say that none of their friends have the same rules…  That’s because we have seen the dangers of technology firsthand. Because i have seen it in myself, I don’t want to see that happen to my kids.”

If our current addictions to our iPhones and other tech is any indication, we may be setting up our children for handicapped, incomplete lives devoid of wonder, creativity and imagination when we present technology to them at an early age. We are one of  the last generation to play outside precisely because we didn’t have laptops and smartphones. We learned from hands – on interaction, movement and we absorbed information through socialization and books with other humans as opposed to a Google search.

Learning in different ways has helped us become more well – rounded individuals – so, should we be more worried that we are robbing our children of the ability to play “Candy Crush” and Snapchat all day if we don’t hand them a smartphone, or should we be more worried that we would be robbing them of a less dependent and healthier development if we give them a smartphone? We think that Steve Jobs had it right in regard to his kids.

So you may want to (highly) consider not giving your kids whatever fancy tech you’ll have while they are growing up, the next time you think about how you will raise them. Surround them with nature and play outside with them; they might hate you at first, but they will absolutely thank you for it later, because we can bet that’s exactly how many of us feel about it now that we are older.

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Source: livingtraditionally.com