Smartphone Free Childhood Founders Daisy Greenwell and Joe Ryrie on the power of a parent collective and the pressures of social media on children
In this Netmums Podcast episode, hosts Wendy Golledge and Alison Perry interview Daisy Greenwell and her husband and Smartphone Free Childhood co-founder Joe Ryrie about the campaign, which the episode describes as having grown past 200,000 members after starting as a February 2024 WhatsApp message. Greenwell discusses the risks she associates with unrestricted smartphone access for children, including exposure to harmful content and patterns of compulsive social media use, while stressing the need to balance those concerns against technology's genuine benefits. The conversation covers how parents can coordinate through school and community groups, what responsibilities the founders believe technology companies should bear, and age-based guidelines the campaign recommends, along with lower-risk device alternatives for younger children who need basic connectivity without full internet or social access.
The episode description states the movement had grown to more than 200,000 members by the time of this February 2025 interview.
Golledge, Wendy, and Alison Perry, hosts. "Smartphone Free Childhood Founders Daisy Greenwell and Joe Ryrie on the power of a parent collective and the pressures of social media on children." The Netmums Podcast, 11 Feb. 2025. https://audioboom.com/posts/8651729-smartphone-free-childhood-founders-daisy-greenwell-and-joe-ryrie-on-the-power-of-a-parent-collect