Erin Napier is a firm believer in kids having simpler childhoods. The HGTV star shared her passion for that philosophy, which includes a commitment to her kids not growing up with cell phones.
Erin Napier Shares Her Perspective on Kids & Cell Phones
Napier has made her stance about kids and technology known in the past, but she took a moment on July 1 to give more perspective.
She shared a screenshot of a post from Nurtured First Parenting that read: “I’m 12. The kids in my class make fun of me because I’m the only one without a phone.”
Napier noted: “There are land lines, flip phones, gabb phones, watches — we can all say no to this together, you know?”
The HGTV star explained how they’ve been approaching the situation with their children and how their oldest daughter Helen has embraced it.
“We’ve been teaching Helen since she was old enough to understand that our family is playing a different game,” Napier wrote. “We are people who will go against the flow, and we DO NOT CARE. She’s got a rebel attitude about this at this point, and she LOVES being different.”
She continued, “Already, kids her age are getting smart phones and she feels like she has a super power: the ability to not care about phones. Join us at ospreykids.com.”
Another screenshot she shared noted: “Parents — if your child’s reason to get a phone is because the kids in their class will be mean to them if they don’t have one — this should be a red flag. If kids are being mean before a phone is introduced — what’s stopping them from being mean online?”
Napier made her point of view very clear: “A school would rue the day I hear an assignment requires a phone or app for my girls. I am more than ready for that conversation, but hopeful we never have to have it. I think a sea change is coming in ed tech.”
Erin Napier Promotes Osprey
On June 14, Napier took to Instagram to promote the organization Osprey, which stands for “Old School Parents Raising Engaged Youth.”
“ospreykids.com is almost 30,000 families strong. get you a landline, give them a 90s childhood, they might learn to sew or build things or catch lobsters or grow their own vegetables then eat them and/or sell them, they might write a song, or read an extra book or ten this summer,” Napier wrote in the caption.
The HGTV star noted that kids can avoid being “addicted to a screen that gives them fake experiences.”
In a 2023 Instagram post, she noted how giving kids “the gift of a social media free adolescence is the only way we change the culture.”
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HGTV’s Erin Napier Shares Passionate Stance About Major Parenting Concern