Kate Winslet bans children from using social media

“It has a huge impact on young women’s self-esteem, because all they ever do is design themselves for people to like them”, Winslet said on the social media ban she has imposed within her family.

Kate Winslet is definitely not a fan of social media, and has banned it in all forms from her house.

The actress is mother to daughter Mia, 15, and sons Joe, 11, and Bear, 22 months. “I say ‘well, because you can go and climb that tree instead.’ So it is quite a hard fight for a parent to fight, but we’re winning”. To do that, devices have to be taken out of their reach. Times. “Play Monopoly. This stuff are usually not rocket science”.

Winslet would not however put her name to a campaign on parenting in the digital age saying: “Stars get slagged off for getting behind causes” and that she did not want to look like a celebrity who thinks “they’ve got the answers”.

Winslet’s warning comes after a study in September showed pressure on teenagers to be always available on social media can lead to depression, anxiety, low self-esteem and poor sleep.

She said previously: “They [the children] don’t have computers because we don’t really do that in my house”.

“They go into a world and parents let them…it takes every member of a family to be a member, and there are too many interruptions these days – and devices are a huge interruption”. Galvin Scott, who is the director of “The Short”, said that Kate was an advocate for people to accept other people.