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“The kids are a little different here in Greystones. In 2023, the Irish seaside town just south of Dublin launched a grass-roots initiative led by local parents, school principals and community members to loosen the grip of technology on their younger kids by adopting a voluntary ‘no smart devices’ code and supporting it with workshops and social events. Three years later, no one in Greystones claims to have cured the ills of modern technology. But they’ve learned that they can’t do anything about it one child at a time. Only a townwide effort could defang the kids’ ‘everyone else has one’ argument.’ ‘With social media, it’s a collective thing,’ said Jennifer Whitmore, a member of Irish parliament and a Greystones mother of four. ‘Addressing it in a clustered manner is the way to go.'” NYT (Gift Article): A Phone-Free Childhood? One Irish Village Is Making It Happen. (Wait, how do they execute family-wide group orders on DoorDash…)