Step-by-step instructions on how to manage screen time limits, change notification settings, etc.

There are alternatives to smart phones that allow calls, texts, pictures, tracking. Wait Until 8th has compiled a list of options.

Bark has created a Family Tech Contract to help families create guardrails for their children. Online dialogue in the homes about what and how tech is being used is so important!

Another resource to help make the best choice for what "not-so-smart" device is best for your child.

This page includes family conversation guides, best practices, parental controls, app safety, and more. A great read before bringing phones into the home.

This website is a great resource for "easing in" and has a wonderful Family Tech Plan.

By signing the online pledge, you promise not to give your child a smartphone until at least the end of 8th grade as long as at least 10 families total from your child’s grade and school pledge.  

"Let Grow believes today’s kids are smarter and stronger than our culture gives them credit for. We are making it easy, normal and legal to give kids the independence they need to grow into capable, confident, and happy adults. When we let go we… Let Grow."

A grassroots movement of parents working to protect children & teens, creating a world in which real-life experiences and interactions remain at the heart of a healthy childhood.

This organization provides resources for administrators, school boards and parents as to how to transition to phone free schools.

Our children are struggling.

Schools, once alive with deep learning born of human connection, are now dominated by screens. The result is unmistakable: falling performance, fractured attention, and the slow erosion of rigorous thought.

We were told that classroom technology was progress. It wasn’t. In THE DIGITAL DELUSION, neuroscientist and educator Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath reveals why digital tools in school consistently undermine learning -- and what parents, teachers, and schools can do to push back with purpose. Drawing on decades of neuroscience and education research, Horvath dismantles the core myths driving the EdTech movement, and offers a practical playbook for putting people -- not programs -- back at the center of education.

This is not a call to reject technology.oes here

Jonathan Haidt’s blockbuster book, The Anxious Generation, has sparked a global conversation about the effects of smartphones and social media on young people’s development, and has inspired millions of parents, teachers, and leaders to take action. Now, Haidt and Catherine Price, author of the bestselling How to Break Up with Your Phone, have teamed up to create a new book that speaks directly to kids. Their goal? To empower young people to stand up for themselves by choosing a life not dominated by screens and social media.

Whether or not kids already have smartphones or social media accounts, this engaging guide is packed with surprising facts, a graphic novel, interactive challenges, secrets that tech leaders don’t want kids to know, and real-life anecdotes from young adults who regret getting smartphones at a young age and want to help the next generation avoid making the same mistakes.

But this isn’t just a book about what not to do. It’s a bold, optimistic, and practical guide to growing into your most authentic, confident, and adventurous self. Readers won’t just discover how to avoid becoming the next Anxious Generation. They’ll learn how to become amazing.

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

Tech Strong Parenting | Dr. Mike Fraser discusses parenting tips when kids are likely mature enough to handle the responsibility of having the internet on a device in their pocket at all times.