Phone-free childhood

In 2023, the Irish seaside town just south of Dublin [Greystone] 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...
“It was one of the first places that took collective action,” said Daisy Greenwell, who co-founded Britain’s Smartphone Free Childhood movement later the same year — inspired, in part, by Greystones. “It made me think that we could shift the culture here, too.”

A Phone-Free Childhood? One Irish Village Is Making It Happen. By Sally McGranePhotographs by Therese Aherne, New York Times, March 25, 2026.