Our Mission

When children started getting them, there was no research about their impact. Now there is, and it’s overwhelming.

Smartphones expose children to harmful content, raise the likelihood of developing a mental illness and are highly addictive.

But parents have been put in an impossible position.

Either we give our children access to something that opens the door to porn, bullying, grooming and the anxiety machine that is social media, or we risk alienating them from their peers.

Regulation hasn’t caught up with the technology, so it’s parents and children that lose out.

We started Smartphone Free Childhood Hong Kong to give power back to parents, and to kickstart the change society needs.

We’ve learned over time to restrict alcohol and smoking to certain age groups. Smartphones have been with us for barely 15 years, and now we know their effect, we need to act.

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Our Objectives

We’re determined to turn the groundswell of public support we’ve already received into real change for our children and future generations. We’ll do it by:

• Growing the conversation about the impact of smartphones and social media on our children in Hong Kong.
• Building awareness, sharing information and empowering parents and schools to create change in Hong Kong.
• Actively encouraging policymakers and other stakeholders to help us protect our children and delay smartphone/social media use, to positively impact the culture around children and screens in Hong Kong.

Just as we marvel at the fact cigarette companies used to market their products as healthy, people will look back on this era and ask why children weren’t protected from smartphones.

Let’s get together and change the norm.

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