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Parenting of Steve Jobs
October 15, 2014
You really can change the world if you care enough.
-Marion Wright Edelman
-Marion Wright Edelman
In her blog on SFGate Amy Graff noted...
"Steve Jobs was the father of two teenage girls and a son when he passed away in 2011. These kids grew up with a visionary father who co-founded one of the best-known tech companies. Jobs led the world into the digital age with gadgets that transformed the way we listen to music, watch movies, communicate, live our lives. You would imagine that his children’s rooms would have been filled with iPods, iPhones, and iPads.
"That’s not the case. Steve Jobs wanted everyone to have iPads, except his own children. In an article in the New York Times, reporter Nick Bilton says he once asked Jobs 'So, your kids must love the iPad?'
"Jobs' response: 'They haven’t used it. We limit how much technology our kids use at home.'"
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Comments (4)
Displaying All 4 CommentsPA, United States
This message doesn't actually affirm anything. It is a quote pulled out of context from an interview five years ago when things were quite different. It is now being shared after the man is dead so he can't clarify or explain his thoughts. Also - he may have been smart, but he had zero background in child development, early learning or education, so it is a shame that so many educators latch on to one isolated quote from years ago and create a new meaning out of it today. I think it is very disrespectful of Steve Jobs to assume we know what he meant or to capitalize on his words when he's gone. Keep in mind- the Jobs household was well-stocked with computers. The original iPad had little to offer compared to the time the Jobs children spent on those computers.
Wheelock College
Boston, MA, United States
Thank you for this EED item about Steve Job's "Low Tech" parenting. It has been a big topic in the news lately--including a September 10 article in the NEW YORK TIMES available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/fashion/steve-jobs-apple-was-a-low-tech-parent.html?comments#permid=12790682
The article inspired me to write the following response which was on the NY Times website. If I hadn't written it then, today's EED piece would have led to the same response!
11 September 2014
Thank you for this report. It's important to understand, as Steve Jobs did, that starting early with high-powered technology does not a child-genius technology whiz make in adulthood. And, never has it been more urgent for parents and educators to recognize how today-much more than ever before, children's knowledge, attitudes, values, interests, and behavior run the risk of being controlled by their experiences with the popular media culture and screens, instead of being actively created by children themselves and/or the adults closest to them. Almost 90 percent of teachers report they believe that digital technologies are creating an easily distracted generation with short attention spans as well as other worrisome trends. I have spent years researching and writing on this impact and urge all parents and educators to make themselves aware of the influence today's media environment can have on young children's development and to make very careful choices about how they let it into their lives.
Professor of Early Childhood Education, Wheelock College.
Author of BEYOND REMOTE-CONTROLLED CHILDHOOD: TEACHING YOUNG CHILDREN IN THE MEDIA AGE
Norman, OK, United States
Smart man. He recognized the dangers of too much screen time for kids.
Spirit Child Yoga & RECE
Aurora, ON, Canada
Love it! And apparently Madonna; purveyor of much non-child friendly fodder while my kids were growing up, wouldn't let her kids consume any media.
Besides reaffirming my skepticism of buying into what popular culture says is good, this message also reaffirms my belief that children make adults better people. They make us see the world through a lens of truth.
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