You Would Not Hand Your 8 Year Old the Car Keys
- Kikori Intern
- Jul 30
- 1 min read
You would not hand your 8-year-old the keys to your car and say good luck. You would wait. You would teach them first. You would wait until they were ready, because you know what is at stake if they are not.
Margot Denommé spent 26 years as a Crown Attorney watching what happened when children were handed the internet with no preparation at all.
Her framework stays the same every time: we built driver's education because we understood the stakes. We need to build digital education for the same reason.
The Family Smartphone Guide, written by Margot, is structured exactly like a driver's handbook. It is built around readiness, not age. Preparation before access.
Full interview with Margot Denommé on the Getting Real with Hilary show linked below.
👉 Learn more about the RAADD + Kikori Digital Citizenship curriculum here
crazy how we treat digital access vs physical driving you go to a local chevy dealer site and see a promo like click here to check out family suvs with teen driver tech built right in we expect all these hardware lockouts and speed warnings for cars but then folks just hand a tablet to a second grader and let them roam the wild west of the internet without a second thought