Regarding gadgets, high-tech executives embrace low-tech parenting?

New York Times reporter Nick Bilton was surprised to learn that many high-tech gurus favor a style of parenting that exposes their children to decidedly low-tech tools. He reports:

Since then [i.e., meeting Steve Jobs], I’ve met a number of technology chief executives and venture capitalists who say similar things: they strictly limit their children’s screen time, often banning all gadgets on school nights, and allocating ascetic time limits on weekends.

I was perplexed by this parenting style. After all, most parents seem to take the opposite approach, letting their children bathe in the glow of tablets, smartphones and computers, day and night.

Yet these tech C.E.O.’s seem to know something that the rest of us don’t.

 Interesting food for thought.

Steve Jobs was a Low-Tech Parent