BY JAMEY TUCKER, Consumer Technology Reporter

Parents in the U.S. may prefer not to give their children a smartphone, but we all understand why that’s often difficult. Just a few kids with a phone can make all the other kids want one. And many parents don’t want them to feel left out.

In Greystones, Ireland, they figured it out.

“It Takes a Village” is a pact parents of primary school children signed to keep phones out of

their hands until secondary school. It’s changed how parents raise their kids.

The initiative launched about 3 years ago, led by Principal Rachel Harper who says, it gave parents

something they didn’t have before: support.

“I think it got conversation going. You know, parents were having coffee together, or they might

be at the side of the football pitch or rugby

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