How to teach your kids about the Internet

A step by step guide to introducing kids to technology

How young is too young for kids to start using technology? To get a tablet or a smartphone? To peruse the horrors and wonders of the open internet?

If you’ve ever struggled with these questions, worry no longer. I’m here to help.

I’ve created the most foolproof, easy-to-understand method for introducing your children to technology that will help their intellectual, mental, social and emotional growth. This guide is 100% guaranteed¹ to raise a perfect child, every time. You may have questions.

• Has this method been reviewed by experts? Well, no.

• Is it informed by your experience as a parent? Also no!

• But surely you have extensive experience teaching children, or researching the literature on child development? Haha! What a great question!

Despite my lack of qualifications, I do think I can contribute something here - not because I understand kids, but because I understand technology. Kids are the easy part. The stupidest people in the world have them all the time! We’ve been raising children into mostly functional humans for thousands of years under all sorts of bizarre conditions.

How to raise a kid is ever-debated, but society has figured out most aspects of that problem. What’s actually new and hard to understand isn’t the part where a kid grows into an adult. It’s the technology. Smartphones have existed less than 20 years, and the modern social internet for only around a decade. How should kids interact with these things that are brand new, where we don’t have generations of experience?

It starts earlier than you’d think, and you may be surprised at my first piece of advice - get a tablet in their hands as early as age 2-3.