Childhood is too short to waste on a smartphone
97% of 10-year-olds and over in Denmark have a smartphone.
When children started getting smartphones in the early 2010s, there was no research on their impact. Now there is research, and the results are overwhelming.
Smartphones with internet and apps are highly addictive and expose 75% of children in Denmark to harmful content according to BørnsVilkår. Our children are growing up in a time where a limitless digital experiment unfolds in a battle for their attention.
Parents have been put in an impossible position. Either we give our kids access to something that opens the door to a whirlwind of snapchat streaks, endless scrolling, and an anxiety machine (social media), or we risk alienating them from their peers.
Regulation has not caught up with technology, so it is the parents and our children who are losing out.
We are some parents who have started 'SkærmsundBarndom' to take up the fight against the dominance of the attention economy, and to kick-start the change that our society needs.
Over time, we have learned to limit alcohol and smoking to certain age groups. Smartphones have been with us for almost 15 years, and now we know their effect, and we must act now
OUR MISSION
SkærmsundBarndomis a parent-led movement on a mission to wrestle our children from the iron grip of the tech giants and inspire them to replace screens with a play-based childhood.
We love technology! But we want a world where technology is adapted to our best interests. We envision a world with technology that respects our attention, improves our well-being and strengthens our communities.
We are determined to use the momentum taking place in many other countries for real change for our children and future generations. We do this by:
Expansion of the national conversation about screen healthy habits.
Helping parents, schools and institutions to create change at local level.
To put pressure on our government and tech companies to help us protect our children.
Just as we marvel that cigarette companies used to market their products as healthy, people will look back on this era and ask why children were not protected from smartphones and social media.
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