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Yet these tech C.E.O.’s seem to know something that the rest of us don’t. Even if I might agree with this parenting style. I find the perspective here to a bit
by kohanz 12y ago
Yet these tech C.E.O.’s seem to know something that the rest of us don’t.
Even if I might agree with this parenting style. I find the perspective here to a bit a condescending - implying that because tech CEO's are doing it, it must be something that others "don't know". What does the qualification of tech CEO have anything to do with parenting?!
- corin_ 12y agoCertainly sounds condescending, but there's is a valid point if they worded it better - the CEOs may not know better but they think they do, in that they're the exception to the rule of "if you can both afford and understand <phones, tablets, TVs, etc.>, your kids will enjoy that technology" (obviously not the only exception, but they're an exception). So unless you're also that sort of person, they either know something the rest of us don't or they at least have an opinion on the subject that the rest of us don't.
- kohanz 12y agoI disagree with the premise that this line of thinking is somehow exclusive or original to tech CEO's though. At least in my own experience, most parents I know can afford tech, but limit it in some way. Unfettered access to tech for young children seems to be the exception, rather than the rule, in my experience.