You can make a difference. You can say yes to waiting.
By signing this pledge, you promise not to give your child a smartphone until at least the end of 8th grade as long as at least 10 families total from your child’s grade and school pledge. If you would like your child to have a basic phone that just calls and texts, you still can sign the pledge! The basic phone avoids many of the distractions and dangers of the smartphone.
Once 10 families have pledged, you will be notified that the pledge is in effect! Wait Until 8th will email you and the other parents who have signed from your child’s grade to connect you with each other. You will receive a list of families delaying from your child’s grade and parent emails to connect your group. This helps you to support one another. There is strength in numbers!
TIPS FOR SIGNING THE PLEDGE
The pledge is easier to complete on a desktop or laptop instead of a phone. There is a school lookup function on the form and it is easier to see on a bigger screen.
To sign the pledge, your child must be in at least kindergarten. Please do not sign the pledge yet if your child is only in preschool. We will not be able to connect your pledge to other families in your community if you enter a preschool.
Please sign up each of your children in elementary school or middle school. To add another child to a pledge form, please select “add another student” on the form.
Since pledges are organized by schools, it is very important to identify the correct school in our database when filling out the pledge form. To find your child’s school in our database, type one or two key words from the school name and hit the magnifier icon on the form. Avoid words such as “the,” “elementary,” “middle,” “junior,” and “school.”
If you cannot find your child’s school or next school, there is a place on the form to enter the school’s name. Please be as specific as possible here and avoid any acronyms.
On the pledge form, we ask for your child’s current school and next school. Please enter the current school your child attends and please list the next school your child will attend such as an upper elementary school, intermediate school, junior high school, middle school or high school.
Wait Until 8th is only taking pledges from the United States.
PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for Wait Until 8th. The security of your personal information is a priority to our organization. We seek to protect this information by maintaining electronic security measures and safeguards designed to protect personal information within our organization. When you enter the information on the pledge form, it is stored in our pledge data management system through Sales Force known in the industry for its security.
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization. Your information will not be made public on this website. If your child’s pledge does become active (10 or more pledges for your child’s grade), Wait Until 8th will notify you. You will receive via email a list of families who are waiting from your child’s grade along with each other’s names and emails to connect you with each other. This helps you to support one another. There is strength in numbers!
SIGN THE PLEDGE!
I agree not to give my child a smartphone until at least the end of 8th grade as long as at least 10 families total from my child’s grade and school pledge to do the same.
