What is Wait Until 8th?
The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to band together to delay the smartphone until at least the end of 8th grade (we think high school).
Know your child will not be the only one without a smartphone with social media. Strength in numbers!
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Once 10 families have made the pledge in your child's grade, you are considered "active" and will be able to connect to more families.
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Choose a Safe/Flip phone instead of a Smartphone! (see our smartphone alternatives).
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Join other families at your school and make the pledge! We have simple tools to help, and we're here for you every step of the way.
Families are an important part of changing our kids dependency and addiction to smartphones.
Smartphone Alternatives
IRL NY (In Real Life) offers great visuals and descriptions on kid-safe watches and phones. They are a New York based organization rallying their community to take childhood offline and into real life.
From Screen Sense
From Wait Until 8th
Smartphone Free Childhood - United States
From Protect Young Eyes
Ooma Telo is a device that connects to your internet to provide affordable home phone service. It includes all traditional landline features like caller ID, voicemail, call waiting, Bluetooth connectivity, and 911 calling.
Family Guides
Wait Until 8th
Wait Until 8th - Boise
Wait Until 8th
ScreenStrong, Strategies to reclaim your kids from video games, smartphones, and social media
Dr. Becky, author of Good Inside, and Jonathan Haidt, author of the Anxious Generation, have created a simple guide for families.
(Printable Trifold) This brochure includes: Book Recommendations, Documentaries, Websites, Smartphone Alternatives, Parental Controls, Family Tech Tips & Strategies
Growing Your Wait Until 8th Circle: From One to Many
Helpful ways to reach out to friends and family to make a pledge to wait to give their child a smartphone until at least the end of 8th grade.
Use and modify this text/email message to reach more families.
Ready-to-Share Resources
Wait Until 8th - Boise Flyer. Please contact your school principal to request these be distributed to families in your schools.
This Wait Until 8th Flyer was created by a member of Smartphone Free Childhood - US.
Email or print this comprehensive smartphone alternative chart created by Smartphone Free Childhood - US
This is the Spanish Wait Until 8th - Boise Flyer. The QR code links to the pledge form, and there's a link to www.movimientonoesmomento.com for Spanish resources on how and why to delay smartphones.
See Wait Until 8th and ScreenStrong printable Family Guides to why and how families should make the pledge.
Recursos en español: no es momento para darle un smartphone (Resources in spanish)
El volante de retrasa el teléfono inteligente
(Wait Until 8th flyer - spanish version)
Boise School District approved
Este es un volante aprobado por BSD para Wait Until 8th.
Obtén respuestas a algunas de las preguntas que frecuentemente recibimos acerca del movimiento y en general por qué esperar.
Infórmese sobre las razones principales por las cuales se recomienda aplazar la edad en la cual le damos su primer smartphone a nuestros hijos.
Encuentre apoyo para usted y su hijo al unirse al salón de clases de su escuela. Siga este enlace para hacer el compromiso.