The rise of the Smartphone Free Childhood movement is the ultimate modern story of how a small action can lead to a big change: when Daisy Greenwell made an Instagram post to share her worries about her young daughter having a smartphone, she didn't expect it to go viral. But it did, and 24 hours later, the WhatsApp group she'd made with her mate Clare, had reached its 2000 people limit. Since then, Daisy, Daisy’s husband, Joe, and Clare have been running the movement from out of her and Joe’s kitchen in Suffolk. The community is now 150,000 strong with local WhatsApp groups of parents in almost every neighbourhood around the country, schools and thousands of individuals signing their Parent and School pacts, and as of this week, a Safer Phones Bill tabled for government debate. In episode 2 of the Good of Small Things, Daisy tells Jessie the inside story of how it happened, what the impact has been (including on her own family life!) and why the whole experience has left her feeling more optimistic than ever about what can happen when people get together to make change. Don't miss this episode.
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