An Appeal To Bill And Melinda Gates For Your Help In Raising Healthy Children

Dear Bill and Melinda, The purpose of this letter is first to commend you for raising your own children with strong screen and phone limits, as this will serve them well. Bill, thank you for declaring in a recent article, “We don’t have cellphones at the table when we are having a meal, we didn’t give our kids cellphones until they were 14 and they complained other kids got them earlier.” Clearly, setting firm tech limits has long been a priority for your family, as a 2007 article highlighted the strong rules you enforce around your kids’ gaming and screen habits. The benefits for your children are abundant, as research shows that these limits dramatically enhance kids’ emotional health, academic success, and physical health. There are, however, more far-reaching steps you can take to extend this fortune to millions of other children. And my second purpose here is to encourage you to take these bolder steps. The fact is that tech companies—including Microsoft—are thwarting parents’ efforts to guide kids’ screen use. As Bill is Microsoft’s founder, second largest stockholder, and technology adviser, you can use your influence to help all children benefit from a low-tech childhood. At the same time, you’ll be magnifying your noble efforts to help the nation’s disadvantaged children. A Generation Lost to Screens Sadly, researchers are finding that most American children don’t have the benefit of rules limiting tech use. And while your family held of...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news