The reason Drew Barrymore isn’t ready for her kids to have phones! Becoming the parent I required
“Do you recall my early years? How on earth are we letting children have this much access? For insufficiently developed brains?” Barrymore uses Instagram to write.
Drew Barrymore is talking candidly about how her personal upbringing has affected her views and her thoughts on allowing her girls to have telephones.
In a lengthy Instagram post titled “Phone Home,” which she shared on Friday, August 30, the 49-year-old actress talked about growing up with “no guardrails” and how she’s now giving her daughters Olive, 12, and Frankie, 10, who she shares with her ex Will Kopelman, more rules, particularly when it comes to having a phone.
In response to pressure, Barrymore says she gave in and handed her older daughter, who is now eleven years old, her first cell phone, “only to be used on weekends and for limited time with no social media.”
“I gathered the behavior and text data within three months,” she went on. The outcomes astonished me… I printed each and every text on paper. “This is not a black void that these travel to,” I said, passing her a stack of pages. We don’t believe in their retraceable and condemning nature if we act immorally online because they’re permanent somewhere we can’t see.”
