Dave Pelletier is the co-founder of the Toronto chapter of Unplugged Canada, a grassroots initiative to get parents to commit to holding off on getting their children smartphones until they’re at least 14.

Dave Pelletier wants to keep a smartphone out of his young daughter’s hands for at least a few more years. The problem is, he is at the mercy of other parents.

As more of them get phones for their kids, the peer pressure gets harder and harder to resist.

That is why Mr. Pelletier, a former software designer in Toronto, was so eager to sign the Unplugged pledge.

Spearheaded by Unplugged Canada, a grassroots initiative launched a little more than a year ago, the pledge asks parents to not get their kids smartphones until they are at least 14, in order to avoid the harms of smartphone u

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