Hugh Grant is not satisfied with the screen time that his children arrive at school.
The actor – who is the father of five – confessed during a recent public appearance that he is “another parent angry with the eternal, exhausting and depressive battle with children who want to be only on a screen”.
During a campaign event held this week by close screens open to the mind of the London Knightsbridge School, Grant criticized the “kind of ridiculous chic private schools” which his children frequent to limit time outdoors.
“They are the ones who say they are not going to play outside today because it rains, or they cannot go on the climbing framework because it is windy,” he said, according to the telegraph. “It’s pathetic. It seems to me that there is space here for a hero school, a set of schools, to break the mold. ”
The actor “Wonka” also shared his tilting point.
“The final straw was when the school started to say, with a certain sufficiency,” we give each child a Chromebook, and they do a lot of lessons on their Chromebook, and they do all their homework on their Chromebook “and you just thought:” It is the last F-Kin thing it needs “and the last thing we need.”
During the event, Grant joined the American author and social psychologist, Dr. Jonathan Haidt and the cousin in the second secondary of King Charles III, Sophie Winkleman to repel the use of smartphones for students under the age of 14.
By campaigning for schools without screen, Dr. Haidt argued that social media should be prohibited for students under the age of 16 in the midst of what he called an “epidemic of mental illness” in young people aggravated by “fragmentation of attention”.
Technology should play a role in education, he added, but “not on children’s offices”.
Grant, 64, shares three children with his wife Anna Eberstein: John Mungo, 12, Lulu, 9, and Blue, 7. He also shares Tabitha, 13, and Felix, 11, from his previous relationship with Tinglan Hong.
In addition, he is the godfather of the 23-year-old ex-girlfriend, the 23-year-old son, Damian.
The actor “Glass Onion” also supported during the event, according to the Telegraph, that more parents must join the cause and talk about screens in schools.
“I think that once you get a critical mass of parents who are indignant by Edtech, as well as all other problems, phones, etc., this is when politicians listen to because they are afraid of this,” he said.
“It is also at the time that schools start to listen to because they are afraid that people leave their schools and lose business,” he added.
Grant generally keeps his life as a father outside the spotlight. However, in November, the actor of “Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy” joked about the means to escape his “noisy” children.
“I do a lot of hiding places in the toilet,” he joked by appearing on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” as a guest. “I sleep a lot in it now.”
In 2023, he also said that he was “too old” for the responsibility of so many little ones. “I don’t have fun at all,” he told people at the time. “I am overwhelmed with children.”
