{"id":60806,"date":"2023-03-31T12:47:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/keeping-kids-safe-wait-until-8th-pledge-aims-to-empower-parents-to-resist-smartphones-for-children-60806"},"modified":"2023-03-31T12:47:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:47:05","slug":"keeping-kids-safe-wait-until-8th-pledge-aims-to-empower-parents-to-resist-smartphones-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/keeping-kids-safe-wait-until-8th-pledge-aims-to-empower-parents-to-resist-smartphones-for-children-60806","title":{"rendered":"Keeping kids safe: &#8216;Wait Until 8th&#8217; pledge aims to empower parents to resist smartphones for children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Over 45,000 people throughout the United States have signed a pledge saying they will hold off on giving their kids a smartphone until the eighth grade \u2014 at the very least.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Wait Until 8th&#8221; pledge was born in 2017, after a group of elementary school parents in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austin, Texas,<\/a> became concerned that they felt pressured to give their young children smartphones, said Brooke Shannon, executive director and founder of Wait Until 8th.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We started seeing children as young as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first and second grade<\/a> coming to school, play dates and birthday parties with the latest iPhone,&#8221; Shannon said in a statement to Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/social-media-mental-health-body-image-toll-teens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>INCREASED USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA TAKES MENTAL HEALTH TOLL ON TEENS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We questioned why young children needed this technology,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/lifestyle\/parenting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talking to other parents<\/a>, many told her they &#8220;caved&#8221; and bought their child a smartphone, as &#8220;everyone had them&#8221; and their child was feeling left out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many of my friends said they wanted to\u00a0wait\u00a0as long as they could but knew it would be an uphill battle,&#8221; said Shannon. &#8220;Out of this dialogue came the idea to rally together as\u00a0a\u00a0community by starting\u00a0a\u00a0pledge.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pledge&#8217;s aim is to &#8220;empower parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least eighth grade&#8221; and to &#8220;create a support network for those parents who would like to wait on giving their child a (smart)phone,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/back-school-mental-health-check-kids-before-bus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BACK-TO-SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH: HOW TO CHECK IN WITH YOUR KIDS BEFORE PUTTING THEM ON THE SCHOOL BUS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every family has various circumstances and\u00a0dynamics that will shape this\u00a0decision,&#8221; said Shannon.<\/p>\n<p>By creating the Wait Until 8th pledge, Shannon hoped to &#8220;flip the script on peer pressure,&#8221; with an emphasis on using &#8220;group momentum for good.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once a parent signs the Wait Until 8th pledge, the pledge is not &#8220;active&#8221; until 10 or more families from a grade at a school have signed on, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made the pledge<\/a> this way so [parents] don&#8217;t have to fear, &#8216;What if I am the only parent that signs this in my kid&#8217;s grade?'&#8221; said Shannon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This takes the pressure off because the pledge only kicks in once at least 10 families sign from your grade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Wait Until 8th pledge only applies to smartphones, said Shannon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Parents who sign the pledge are free to give their child &#8220;a basic phone that just calls and texts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/teen-girls-struggling-mental-illness-record-levels-many-persistently-sad-data-reveals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TEEN GIRLS ARE STRUGGLING WITH MENTAL ILLNESS AT RECORD LEVELS, WITH MANY &#8216;PERSISTENTLY SAD,&#8217; DATA REVEALS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shannon added, &#8220;The basic phone avoids many of the distractions and dangers of the smartphone.&#8221; She also said, &#8220;All the major carriers continue to offer basic cell phones that do not require data plans.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Plus, &#8220;there are\u00a0several two-way calling watches out there with GPS tracking,&#8221; which can function as an alternative to a smartphone while still enabling a parent to be able to contact their child, she continued,<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital spoke to two families who have taken the Wait Until 8th pledge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carley Hower, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/midwest\/indiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indiana-based mom<\/a> of four children aged 11, 9, 6 and 4, told Fox News Digital that she took the pledge along with a handful of her friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of her 11-year-old&#8217;s friends have started to get smartphones, she said \u2014 and while her son has mentioned the issue, he &#8220;knows that we won&#8217;t give him one.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have lots of ongoing conversations about being smart with technology,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Hower said a friend introduced her to the pledge \u2014 and they both decided to sign it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/hospital-emergency-rooms-america-mentally-ill-kids-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AS EMERGENCY ROOMS SEE MORE OF AMERICA&#8217;S MENTALLY ILL KIDS, NEW STUDY PINPOINTS ISSUES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s helpful when other parents do it together so our kids aren\u2019t the only ones without a smartphone,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By keeping her children away from smartphones, Hower is hoping, in part, to protect them against cyberbullying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As parents, we would do anything to protect our kids,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This is just another way to protect our children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hower has a friend who is a first responder, she also said. The friend has &#8220;been called many times when 12-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/mental-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kids have committed suicide<\/a>, often the result of cyberbullying, among other issues.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/warning-signs-suicide-what-know-prevention-red-flags-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>WARNING SIGNS OF SUICIDE: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT PREVENTION, RED FLAGS AND HOW TO DEAL WITH THE ISSUE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>None of Hower&#8217;s children have non-smart phones, either.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said that while each family is different, &#8220;we don\u2019t have any reason to give our kids a phone.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She added, &#8220;I think peer pressure or fear of missing out is a push for some kids&#8221; to get a phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for safety, Hower&#8217;s family has &#8220;used walkie-talkies when the older kids go to the neighborhood park&#8221; \u2014 and the family still has a home phone if the kids are ever home alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s important to teach our kids to be smart with technology, and not just avoid it altogether,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then, when they do have a smartphone, they can make good choices and use their phones with integrity in mind.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nichole Lanthier of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/louisiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lake Charles, Louisiana<\/a>, is another believer in delaying smartphone use for as long as possible. She has five children, ages 14, 12, 9, 6 and 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/teen-girls-spend-more-time-sensitive-social-media-harm-mental-health-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TEEN GIRLS SPEND MORE TIME ON \u2018SENSITIVE\u2019 SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT THAT CAN HARM MENTAL HEALTH, REPORT SAYS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My husband and I decided upon this pretty much at the beginning, the first time the conversation about phones for the kids came up,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lanthier&#8217;s 14-year-old daughter now has a Gabb phone, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gabb phones look like smartphones but do not have an internet browser, social media apps, app store or games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some versions of Gabb phones are able to download a limited number of pre-approved apps, including apps for education and spirituality, its website notes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital reached out to Gabb for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lanthier said that her daughter&#8217;s friends have smartphones and &#8220;it&#8217;s such a struggle.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/surge-teen-girls-experiencing-sexual-violence-dramatic-officials-calling-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>SURGE OF TEEN GIRLS EXPERIENCING SEXUAL VIOLENCE IS \u2018DRAMATIC,\u2019 WITH OFFICIALS CALLING IT A \u2018CRISIS\u2019<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve had them for years,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She goes back and forth,&#8221; Lanthier said of her daughter&#8217;s thought on the cell phone ban in the home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the one hand, she does see our point and she knows why we are doing it. But she&#8217;s at that age where her friends hold so much influence.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lanthier is not sure why other parents are so quick to buy their young children smartphones, she said. But she thinks perhaps they &#8220;do not realize there are options that are not smartphones.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She added, &#8220;Getting my oldest a Gabb phone has made things much easier with her going here and there. But she doesn&#8217;t need to have the internet with her everywhere she goes.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lanthier has witnessed firsthand the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/healthy-living\/childrens-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">negative effects of smartphones<\/a> on her daughter&#8217;s generation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/dr-marc-siegel-cdcs-shocking-teen-mental-health-report-trouble-teen-girls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WE&#8217;RE IN TROUBLE WITH TEEN GIRLS: DR. MARC SIEGEL ANALYZES CDC&#8217;S &#8216;SHOCKING&#8217; TEEN MENTAL HEALTH REPORT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her friends will come over and they start off hanging out, but inevitably they all end up huddled around one of the kid&#8217;s smartphones, watching YouTube or TikTok,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really frustrating. I wish al the parents were on board with holding off on smartphones.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Parenting experts who spoke about the pledge to Fox News Digital had mixed views.<\/p>\n<p>California-based parenting expert Stef Tousignant of ParentingDifferenty.com told Fox News Digital that &#8220;Wait Until 8th&#8221; is &#8220;just a new cultural \u2018expectation\u2019 that privileged parents are pushing onto all families.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tousignant, based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in the Bay Area<\/a>, acknowledged that while evidence suggests that social media usage does have an impact on anxiety and depression rates in preteens, &#8220;possessing a cell phone does not equate directly to social media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/pediatricians-recommend-all-adolescents-be-screened-suicide-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>PEDIATRICIANS RECOMMEND ALL ADOLESCENTS BE SCREENED FOR SUICIDE RISK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instead, parents should strive to teach their children safe phone usage, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we want to teach our children the skills of owning a phone, we can start with just the phone and be prepared to teach; to provide boundaries (try the Circle app) and natural consequences just like any other new situation,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is just another dividing line that privileged parents are drawing in the sand instead of learning more about their child&#8217;s unique needs and sticking to boundaries,&#8221; said Tousignant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Teaching a child \u2018our family, our rules\u2019\u00a0with phones is a simple way to start the deeply needed conversation around other preteen peer-pressure issues like drugs and alcohol,&#8221; she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another parenting expert is in favor of the idea, albeit with even more restrictions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/teen-girls-dealing-mental-health-crisis-need-connection-most-doctors-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TEEN GIRLS DEALING WITH MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS NEED \u2018CONNECTION\u2019 MOST, DOCTORS SAY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My advice to parents is, &#8216;Don&#8217;t get started down that road (of smartphone usage),'&#8221; John Rosemond, a North Carolina-based psychologist and author of 18 books on parenting, told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Inform your child, early, that he\/she will not be allowed a smartphone until (a) they can pay for it and the monthly bills on their own, and (b) they no longer live at home,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Parents who compromise on the issue of smartphones &#8220;need a backbone,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My experience has been that smartphones pose a danger to the emotional development of adolescent and especially early adolescent children, girls in particular,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his experiences, smartphones and their various apples &#8220;become \u2018stages'&#8221; upon which &#8220;middle-school-age girls create, act out and participate in personal dramas,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The girls in question \u2014 by the time their parents get in touch with me \u2014 have become depressed, anxious and even suicidal,&#8221; he also said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters?cmpid=fnfirstnl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The same is not true, he said, of teens who do not have smartphones.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have also talked with a good number (albeit a minority) of parents who have not allowed smartphones into their teenagers&#8217; lives,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In most instances, the child in question complains of being the only kid in his\/her peer group without a smartphone &#8230; But in every instance, the child in question is not experiencing any untoward emotional issues,&#8221; he also said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, these devices and platforms have a potentially toxic influence,&#8221; said Rosemond.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/keeping-kids-safe-wait-until-8th-pledge-aims-empower-parents-resist-smartphones-children\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/keeping-kids-safe-wait-until-8th-pledge-aims-empower-parents-resist-smartphones-children <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 45,000 people throughout the United States have signed a pledge saying they will hold off on giving their kids a smartphone until the eighth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-60806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Keeping kids safe: &#039;Wait Until 8th&#039; 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