Rachel Accurso, better known as children's YouTuber Ms. Rachel, is continuing to be a voice for the children of Gaza.
Miranda Kerr may be married to the co-founder and CEO of Snapchat, but that doesn't mean that the couple is lax on screen time in their home. In fact, she and husband Evan Spiegel actually have pretty strict rules in place for their shared brood.
Speaking with E! News this week, Kerr was asked how the couple approaches social media with their kids. She and Spiegel share three sons together, Hart, 7, Myles, 6, and Pierre, who was born in February 2024. Kerr also has a 14-year-old son named Flynn with her ex-husband, Orlando Bloom.
"Well, my husband is very anti-screens for the young ones, because that's the way he was raised," the former Victoria's Secret Angel explained. "And so we've been together 11 years and I've said to him, 'Look, something that feels good to me is just like maybe on the weekend or a special occasion, curling up with the kids, like the 6- and 7-year-old, and the teenager if he wants to join in, and like snuggling up and watching a movie.' And he's like, OK, but not every weekend."
"OK, that's fine, compromise. But that's like the extent of the screen time," Kerr said, admitting that her 7-year-old had participated in a learning program over the summer holiday, and even learned a little Minecraft.
"But then when we talk about our teenager, who is 14, almost 15, I have the parental controls on his phone," she explained. "And then on top of that he doesn't have social media, which we think is important, but he does have Snapchat, which is the only way he communicates with his friends. Like, they don't really text, they just snap each other all day long."
Kerr noted that Snapchat has a parental control tool called Family Center, as well as a digital safety program called The Keys that helps teens and their parents understand and navigate online risks.
"You can watch with your child to just explain some of the dangers that are happening online," she continued. "And you watch it with them and it explains very simply like, what could go wrong or you know how to prevent it and when to reach out to someone if you feel like something's off, and then that's the way we do it at our house."
When asked when the couple allowed the teenager to have a phone and Snapchat, Kerr said that he was about 13 and a half.
Kudos to Kerr and Spiegel for keeping their kids grounded in an increasingly screen-obsessed world. That can be difficult enough for most average parents, not to mention when your dad is literally a billionaire.
