LISTEN | Why these parents are bringing back the landline: The Current 23:51 Parents are saying 'no' to smartphones for kids, here's why

When Lindsay Matheson’s tween daughter started to ask her for a smartphone, she didn’t get one right away.

Instead, her mother took a different approach: she dialed back the clock and encouraged her daughter to use the family’s landline.

“She did, she tried, but [my daughter] was just so aghast that I would suggest it,” Matheson, who lives in Toronto, told ’s Matt Galloway.

“She joked with me that it was the equivalent of, if I gave her a parchment and a quill, and she would write a letter to her friends and mail it off, and hear back from them in a couple of weeks.”

With growing concerns about the safety of kids online, parents and others

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