A 41yo mom told me this week that she's raising her daughter as a '90s kid' 😮 Her 10yo has an android that can only call and send texts (no…

A 41yo mom told me this week that she's raising her daughter as a "90s kid" 😮 Her 10yo has an android that can only call and send texts (no browsing, no uber, nada). She plays the original Mario. When she wants to see her friends, she calls instead of texts - her mom is considering getting her a corded phone too. The kid watches new movies all the time and still picks The Princess Bride on repeat (elite taste). She has a personal iPad that was gifted to her and opens it once every few months. I asked about tech literacy, and the mom said she learned to code at school in 3rd and 4th grade. "These kids are basically born tech literate." The mom said another thing I'm looping in my head: "There's no rush to speed up her childhood." The kids born now won't have a pre-algorithm childhood unless someone (a parent, a teacher, a caretaker) gives them one on purpose. This mom is choosing to give her daughter the long version of being a kid before the world hands her a compressed one. I don't know if she's right. I don't know if any of us are right about any of this. But I feel like "no rush" is one of the most generous things a parent can say to a kid. (And fwiw - my movie rec was Hook.)

Source: Allie K. Miller (X) | 2026-05-14