Our movement
Logout LO seeks to empower parents through collective action to restore healthy and active offline childhoods protected from smartphone and social media harm.
The Four Norms of Healthy Offline Childhood
No smartphones until highschool
Provide flip phones if necessary. If just a small fraction of our families can commit to this, the kids without smartphones will not face social isolation. They and us will have each other
No phones in schools
Teaching and learning is a massive undertaking without distraction. Our teachers and kids should not be separated by phone distractions. Let's get LOSD to commit to phones being left at the door to increase and enhance the opportunity for live, in-person interactions for at least six hours per day.
Keep our kids off social media until age 16
The performative nature of social media fuels a world of continuous anxiety born in unrealistic social comparisons and amplified bullying. Kids lack the executive function to navigate these issues, and the opportunity cost of them sacrificing healthy offline interactions is too high
Foster active independence to restore play-based childhood
Encourage kids to engage in active and independent offline activity wiht peers.Kids need lots of peer interaction outside the directd oversight of adults. They need to learn to go to the store by themselves, to organize their own playdates, to transport themselves to friends homes 1-3 miles away. They need these experiences both for healthy and happy childhods that grow them into competent and independent adults.
It takes a village
We parents must act together and across our differences to reestablish offline childhood norms.
Logout LO provides a place for parents to publically pledge their support for these norms, arm them with facts, research content, and news in support of these norms, and simple community action they can take to further the cause. Our goal is to empower the collective parental action necessary to establish a local childhood-rearing culture that maintains healthy boundaries around screen time and reinvigorates childhood with abundant independence, physical activity, and social interaction. We imagine Lake Oswego with parks full of kids free from looking at phones, looking up at each other instead of down at screens, chatting, and learning from one another. We imagine kids continuously and independently walking, running, and bicycling across our beautiful and safe town to each other's homes and neighborhoods to gather for activities they have themselves arranged.
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Let's work toward fostering the key norms for healthy offline childhoods that are untethered from Internet excesses.
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