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from FORTUNE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Despite building an increasingly screen-focused world, billionaire tech leaders are keeping their own children away from the tech they helped create.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As far back as 2010,\u00a0Apple<\/a>\u00a0cofounder Steve Jobs\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0a\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0reporter his kids had never used an iPad and that, \u201cWe limit how much technology our kids use at home.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, the trend of Silicon Valley billionaires keeping their families away from technology has become even more pronounced, thanks in part to the rise of social media and short-form video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excessive device use among children has grown more common in recent years as busy parents turn to screens to find some peace. The trend has accelerated so much that some young children accustomed to extensive screen time are dubbed \u201ciPad kids.\u201d On average, children in the U.S. ages 8 to 18 spend 7.5 hours per day watching or using screens,\u00a0according to<\/a>\u00a0the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

YouTube<\/a>\u00a0cofounder Steve Chen\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0at a talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business last year that he wouldn\u2019t want his kids consuming only short-form content, noting that it might be better to limit kids to videos longer than 15 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from FORTUNE Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich Despite building an increasingly screen-focused world, billionaire tech leaders are keeping their own children away from the tech they helped create. By\u00a0Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez As far back as 2010,\u00a0Apple\u00a0cofounder Steve Jobs\u00a0told\u00a0a\u00a0New York Times\u00a0reporter his kids had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14141,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14140\/revisions\/14141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}