Britteny Mast, an Oregon mom, chose to install a home phone to manage her children's growing independence while avoiding smart technology. Her decision stemmed from concerns over providing a cellphone too soon. Mast highlights that the home phone has encouraged her 6- and 8-year-olds to develop conversational skills, having grown reliant on FaceTime. She humorously notes the challenge of helping her kids learn phone etiquette, as they initially treated it like a toy. So far, the family has embraced the change with positive reactions from limited family contacts.
"We saw this as a way to fill in the gap for these elementary years where we don't want to give them smart technology quite yet, but we also don't want to take away their opportunity to learn independence."
"They were so used to FaceTiming people that talking on the phone and learning the art of conversation is a skill they have to work on."
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