Steve Jobs Didnt Let His Kids Use iPhones

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Steve Jobs is a name which is synonymous with cutting edge, innovative and groundbreaking technology.

So it may come as something as a surprise to learn Apple’s former CEO didn’t believe in letting his kids use some of his company’s greatest products – the iPhone and the iPad.


And it’s not because the Apple godhead was a closet Samsung fan either.


Jobs, who died in 2011, may have had an instinctive flair for technology but he was a low tech parent who firmly believed in restricting his children’s access to electronic devices.


“We limit how much technology our kids use at home,” said Jobs way back in 2010, expressing growing concerns about his children’s gadget use.
As all modern parents know, iPhones and iPads are extremely appealing to children. These little hand-held devices are state-of-the-art toys. Surrogate parents almost, capable of entertaining, distracting, and pacifying children during school holidays and on long car journeys when mom and dad’s attentions are focused elsewhere.


Yet instead of thanking Apple for these extremely convenient parent assistants, should we actually be concerned about the potential harm they may be inflicting upon our youngsters?


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[Night_Hawk]

Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent

By NICK BILTONSEPT. 10, 2014


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While some tech parents assign limits based on time, others are much stricter about what their children are allowed to do with screens. Credit Jonathan Nackstrand/Agence France-Presse Getty Images


When Steve Jobs was running Apple, he was known to call journalists to either pat them on the back for a recent article or, more often than not, explain how they got it wrong. I was on the receiving end of a few of those calls. But nothing shocked me more than something Mr. Jobs said to me in late 2010 after he had finished chewing me out for something I had written about an iPad shortcoming.
So, your kids must love the iPad? I asked Mr. Jobs, trying to change the subject. The companys first tablet was just hitting the shelves. They havent used it, he told me. We limit how much technology our kids use at home.
Im sure I responded with a gasp and dumbfounded silence. I had imagined the Jobss household was like a nerds paradise: that the walls were giant touch screens, the dining table was made from tiles of iPads and that iPods were handed out to guests like chocolates on a pillow.
Nope, Mr. Jobs told me, not even close.

Since then, Ive met a number of technology chief executives and venture capitalists who say similar things: they strictly limit their childrens screen time, often banning all gadgets on school nights, and allocating ascetic time limits on weekends.
I was perplexed by this parenting style. After all, most parents seem to take the opposite approach, letting their children bathe in the glow of tablets, smartphones and computers, day and night.
Yet these tech C.E.O.s seem to know something that the rest of us dont.
Chris Anderson, the former editor of Wired and now chief executive of 3D Robotics, a drone maker, has instituted time limits and parental controls on every device in his home. My kids accuse me and my wife of being fascists and overly concerned about tech, and they say that none of their friends have the same rules, he said of his five children, 6 to 17. Thats because we have seen the dangers of technology firsthand. Ive seen it in myself, I dont want to see that happen to my kids.
The dangers he is referring to include exposure to harmful content like pornography, bullying from other kids, and perhaps worse of all, becoming addicted to their devices, just like their parents.
Alex Constantinople, the chief executive of the OutCast Agency, a tech-focused communications and marketing firm, said her youngest son, who is 5, is never allowed to use gadgets during the week, and her older children, 10 to 13, are allowed only 30 minutes a day on school nights.
Evan Williams, a founder of Blogger, Twitter and Medium, and his wife, Sara Williams, said that in lieu of iPads, their two young boys have hundreds of books (yes, physical ones) that they can pick up and read anytime.
So how do tech moms and dads determine the proper boundary for their children? In general, it is set by age.
Children under 10 seem to be most susceptible to becoming addicted, so these parents draw the line at not allowing any gadgets during the week. On weekends, there are limits of 30 minutes to two hours on iPad and smartphone use. And 10- to 14-year-olds are allowed to use computers on school nights, but only for homework.
We have a strict no screen time during the week rule for our kids, said Lesley Gold, founder and chief executive of the SutherlandGold Group, a tech media relations and analytics company. But you have to make allowances as they get older and need a computer for school.
Some parents also forbid teenagers from using social networks, except for services like Snapchat, which deletes messages after they have been sent. This way they dont have to worry about saying something online that will haunt them later in life, one executive told me.
Although some non-tech parents I know give smartphones to children as young as 8, many who work in tech wait until their child is 14. While these teenagers can make calls and text, they are not given a data plan until 16. But there is one rule that is universal among the tech parents I polled.


This is rule No. 1: There are no screens in the bedroom. Period. Ever, Mr. Anderson said.
While some tech parents assign limits based on time, others are much stricter about what their children are allowed to do with screens.
Ali Partovi, a founder of iLike and adviser to Facebook, Dropbox and Zappos, said there should be a strong distinction between time spent consuming, like watching YouTube or playing video games, and time spent creating on screens.
Just as I wouldnt dream of limiting how much time a kid can spend with her paintbrushes, or playing her piano, or writing, I think its absurd to limit her time spent creating computer art, editing video, or computer programming, he said.
Others said that outright bans could backfire and create a digital monster.
**** Costolo, chief executive of Twitter, told me he and his wife approved of unlimited gadget use as long as their two teenage children were in the living room. They believe that too many time limits could have adverse effects on their children.
When I was at the University of Michigan, there was this guy who lived in the dorm next to me and he had cases and cases of Coca-Cola and other sodas in his room, Mr. Costolo said. I later found out that it was because his parents had never let him have soda when he was growing up. If you dont let your kids have some exposure to this stuff, what problems does it cause later?
I never asked Mr. Jobs what his children did instead of using the gadgets he built, so I reached out to Walter Isaacson, the author of Steve Jobs, who spent a lot of time at their home.
Every evening Steve made a point of having dinner at the big long table in their kitchen, discussing books and history and a variety of things, he said. No one ever pulled out an iPad or computer. The kids did not seem addicted at all to devices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/fashion/steve-jobs-apple-was-a-low-tech-parent.html?_r=0

 

[Vitamin_C]

We do not have a TV at home, so I only follow the news on this website. Also my wife and I turn of all electronic devices in the house after 10pm and no Cell phones in the bedrooms. I will get rid of my iPads and other tablets when we plan to have kids. No Tv, No Computers, No iPads and no cellphones. It will ruin the childhood of your kids.

 

[student]

IPhone or electronic gadgets and devices are not the problems, but addiction is the problem. If you teach your children discipline and allow them use under controlled manner its not going to be problem.

We do not have a TV at home, so I only follow the news on this website. Also my wife and I turn of all electronic devices in the house after 10pm and no Cell phones in the bedrooms. I will get rid of my iPads and other tablets when we plan to have kids. No Tv, No Computers, No iPads and no cellphones. It will ruin the childhood of your kids.

 

[Vitamin_C]

There is no reason for them to use them. I have read books on this and done a lot of research. These gadgets, especially TV and cartoons are very damaging to kids. You may think that cartoons are harmless but even they have an element of brainwashing in them and maybe dangerous.

IPhone or electronic gadgets and devices are not the problems, but addiction is the problem. If you teach your children discipline and allow them use under controlled manner its not going to be problem.

 

[student]

The real challenge going to be to make them wise enough to distinguish themselves proudly from 99 percent of children who are going to watch those cartoons or movies and use those electronic devices..

There is no reason for them to use them. I have read books on this and done a lot of research. These gadgets, especially TV and cartoons are very damaging to kids. You may think that cartoons are harmless but even they have an element of brainwashing in them and maybe dangerous.

 

[abdlsy]

There is no reason for them to use them. I have read books on this and done a lot of research. These gadgets, especially TV and cartoons are very damaging to kids. You may think that cartoons are harmless but even they have an element of brainwashing in them and maybe dangerous.

I agree 100%. I can give real examples parent ran cartoon on u tube after cartoon ended kid pressed naked scene of some movie oops. Kid asks dad a 4 yr old spell nickjr.com kid typos chick.com a loud noice of a kiss. A 8 yr old proud owner of cell phone got caught about texts about a 13 yr old sister who meets a boy n is in love oops cell phone taken away. Shows on Disney and Nickelodeon made for kids by some laawaris loosers for kids always always gives a hidden message to preteens n teens about vibe about opposite sex attractions in between breaks commercials of r rated shows with half naked man n women in bed. Cartoons like spong bob research proven creates attention deficit in kids
even discovery channel sometimes full gross display of sex mating in wild animals. All desi channels is ishq ishq more ishq family where dad has a mistress.
If u r musalman n wAnt ur kids do halal stuff in future n get a decent education all these things internet tv etc should be supervised or banned if possible kids need numaz homework n playground sports bicycling swimming etc otherwise in old age you will be getting surprises what kind of devil u created so think about it n then tooooo late May allahtallah guide us ameen

 

[Vitamin_C]

Kids should be taught from an early age how to pray and how to read Arabic early in morning. Rather than waking up and using iPad. I would rather have my kids play football outside and than play WoW on their computers. Or be among the players in the school football team rather than sit in the corner of the canteen with nerds discussing a new video game. Television and computers in the house are a no no, they can use computers in school or university for their study if they need to. They are also very bad for the health as they release radiation even until many hours after they have been turned off.

I agree 100%. I can give real examples parent ran cartoon on u tube after cartoon ended kid pressed naked scene of some movie oops. Kid asks dad a 4 yr old spell nickjr.com kid typos chick.com a loud noice of a kiss. A 8 yr old proud owner of cell phone got caught about texts about a 13 yr old sister who meets a boy n is in love oops cell phone taken away. Shows on Disney and Nickelodeon made for kids by some laawaris loosers for kids always always gives a hidden message to preteens n teens about vibe about opposite sex attractions in between breaks commercials of r rated shows with half naked man n women in bad. Cartoons like spong bob research proven creates attention deficit in kids
even discovery channel sometimes full gross display of sex mating in wild animals. All desi channels is ishq ishq more ishq family where dad has a mistress.
If u r musalman n wAnt ur kids do halal stuff in future n get a decent education all these things internet tv etc should be supervised or banned if possible kids need numaz homework n playground sports bicycling swimming etc otherwise in old age you will be getting surprises what kind of devil u created so think about it n then tooooo late May allahtallah guide us ameen