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November 7, 2024 52 mins

Tsh chats with her old friend Erin Loechner about unplugging as a lifestyle choice, both for us as adults and for our kids. She’s got kids a few years younger than Tsh’s, but they’re both in lock-step with their ethos of letting their kids be kids. They get into the rebellion of not giving kids smartphones, why it’s important for local friends to do this together en-masse, and how to live fully without instagram, incessant smartphone-checking, and other forms of swimming against the current.

* Tsh’s newsletter: The Commonplace

* Tsh’s books, trips, & Rule of Life

* Erin Loechner’s blog: Design for Mankind

* Erin’s latest book: The Opt-Out Family

* Opt-out resources

* The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt

* Recommended reads

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* Buy a round of drinks

* Join the next pilgrimage on the Rhine River



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