TLO Lincoln Promise
Turning Life On By Keeping Tech In Check
TLO Lincoln Promise brings together community members, parents, and leaders in Lincoln who care about healthy and safe technology use by our children. It is a support platform for those raising kids in the rapidly-changing and challenging world of digital media.
TLO Lincoln Promise encourages parents to delay giving smartphones (with unrestricted internet and social media) to their children until 8th grade, if not beyond. The Promise’s objective is to reduce, if not eliminate, the social pressure to have a smartphone. This community-based support platform will unite parents with a public promise so parents can see who else is on board, kids won’t feel so alone, and waiting won’t seem so hard!
The core mission of Turning Life On - By Keeping Tech In Check is to support, educate and partner with community members. Through this platform, we will support ALL Lincoln parents - whether families choose to delay or not - through educational events, research articles, and sharing tips with one another to help our children manage technology instead of technology managing them.
Click Inform or Empower from the Menu Bar above to start Turning Life On. Together we can effectuate positive change around technology use by children.
PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING US IN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING WAYS
Public Promise Members by Child’s Year of Graduation: Parents listed as Promise Members have taken a public promise to delay giving their child a smartphone until at least 8th grade as smartphones easily provide access to the Internet, social media and gaming. Our public promise helps to reduce the social pressure to have a smartphone by making smartphones the exception, not the rule.
Public Supporters: Healthy and safe technology use is about more than just smartphones in middle school. That’s why we support all parents. Members listed as “Supporters” publicly support and join our community even though they are unable to make the promise at this time (perhaps children have “aged-out”).
Private Supporters: Private Supporters will be added to our mailing list and will have access to our local closed discussion groups but will not be publicly listed on our website.
To join TLO Lincoln, please complete this form.
TLO Lincoln is about supporting parents through educational opportunities and partnerships with community leaders. To get more involved or to be a local partner, please also complete this form so we have your info!
PROMISE MEMBERS (BY YOG):
Supporters
Bryan and Brianna Doo
2023
Sharon Lincoln
2024
Tara and Kenny Mitchell
Pilar and Mark Doughty
2025
Julia and Rob Johnson
Michelle and Joe Doyle
Liz and Mark Wilkinson
A K Cohen
2026
Sandra Coleman
Laura and Christopher Taylor
DJ and Matt Mitchell
Tara and Kenny Mitchell
Gabrielle Berberian and Rob Donaldson
Julia and Rob Johnson
Molly Cavanaugh-Hussey and Peter Hussey
Moha Desai and Vinit Patel
Hannah and Andy Stevenson
Rand Darwish and Tareef Kawaf
2027
Pilar and Mark Doughty
Michelle and Joe Doyle
Ginger and Kurt Reiner
Heather L. Wright-Finn and Christopher J. Finn
2028
Sandra Coleman
Hannah and Andy Stevenson
DJ and Matt Mitchell
Cathie and Hans Bitter
Heather L. Wright-Finn and Christopher J. Finn
Robyn Dunbar and Eric Bogner
Audrey Kalmus and Eric Zimmerman
2029
Anne and Andy Wang
Gabrielle Berberian and Rob Donaldson
Rebecca and Paul Blanchfield
Julia and Rob Johnson
Ginger and Kurt Reiner
Rand Darwish and Tareef Kawaf
2030
Hannah and Andy Stevenson
Caroline Marotta
2031
Caroline and Mark Nordstrom
Laura and Christopher Taylor
Moha Desai and Vinit Patel
Masha Obolensky
Heather and Thornton Ring
Kimberly and Brian Jalet
Anne and Andy Wang
2032
Kim Goldmacher
2033
2034
Julia and Rob Johnson