Emily

“But we know the truth, you and I. There are many, many tasks in our very human lives that we don't want to carry out. . . . But somewhere along the way, these mundane tasks stack up to a life. Your favorite song comes on in the grocery store and you can't help busting out your karaoke moves with the cashier, and your son laughs and rolls his eyes and you remember what he looked like at every age that has passed--his dimples at three, the tousled hair at six, the tiny chip in his front tooth you never fixed because everyone grew to love it. You forget the cilantro, but my gosh, the sunrise looks so beautiful in the parking lot.”
― Erin Loechner, The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't

“I am filled with hope for the generation to come that will once again be given permission to delight in a cloudless ski, a tender playmate, an afternoon of joy to swing upside down among the leaves. For a growing movement of children who will dance without TikTok. Who will live and love without commentary. Who will smile--widely and freely--without a filter. And I am filled with gratitude for the bold, brave, and unapologetic parents who will point their children to the heights of presence and admiration and innocence that Silicon Valley can never scale.”
― Erin Loechner, The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't

“It's not about fearfully shooing our children away from screens, slamming laptops shut in fits of despair. It is, simply, opening the door wide to something better. It's the quiet recognition that every time we opt out of technology, we opt in to life. . . . After all, the opposite of opting in is not opting out. It's living free.”
― Erin Loechner, The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't

“There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.”
― Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With