Giving Our Kids What Tech can't
Empowering parents and educators to turn the digital mess into growth, resilience, and creativity. For our kids.
When children started using screens in classrooms and at home, people marveled at how easily they could use the devices. It was as though they were meant for each other, like ducks to water.
Yet 15 years later, parents worry about the effects of these devices on their children. As tech adoption increased, mental well-being and academic performance declined.
Each week in Raising Human, we’ll explore the profound—and sometimes unsettling—collision of childhood and technology. Together, we’ll unpack why this collision occurs.
Beyond technology, we will examine the other forces making parenting and educating children harder. We will investigate what it all means to the experience of being a child, and how we can begin to craft thoughtful, practical solutions that go beyond the usual content or screen time management and generic parenting or tech advice. We will explore what is already being done, what remains to be accomplished, and what we can do individually as parents or educators, along with solutions that require collective participation.
If technology itself can’t prepare our kids for the digital world, how can we?
By becoming more informed and intentional as parents and educators, we not only support our children—we also help them grow into more confident and accomplished adults.
Being a parent used to be a stage in life; it now comes with enormous societal and economic pressures, and tech played a role in that transformation.
We need to open the pressure valve and make parenting and education easier, not more complicated.
When we approach parenting with calm and confidence, we do better, and our children benefit. Adequately protected, they develop the necessary skills to manage themselves and the world confidently. As a result, society grows stronger. We collectively become more resilient and better prepared for the future that our children will help define.
In Raising Human, we aim to find actionable solutions that move the needle in the right direction.
I bring years of experience in tech and leadership of the Silicon Valley school that eschewed technology before it was fashionable to do so.
Raising Human is about making our children better off and better prepared.
You, your children, and society at large will benefit from engaging.
I am so glad you are here!
Please consider joining us.
It won’t happen without you!