Articles about children, communication, and family connection.
Come and see Barnluren at Underbara barn, Stockholmsmässan, 16 to 18 October. The children duel with real Cobras and get tattoos while you try Barnluren and talk to us. Every day we give away two Barnlurens, one for the child and one for a friend.
Read more →In more than 20 countries, parent movements are organising almost half a million families who are waiting to give their children a smartphone. Nearly all of these countries now ban phones in school, but only four countries give guidelines on when a child should own one. And no movement has a good answer to how the child should reach their friends in the meantime, without a mobile phone. That is the gap Barnluren fills.
Read more →Andreas Tael is joining Barnluren as Co-founder. He spent more than a decade learning what holds attention — and he's joining us to build the opposite.
Read more →The share of nine-year-olds with their own mobile fell from 82 to 67 percent. But look closer at Mediemyndigheten's figures and 10- and 11-year-olds are completely unchanged. The entire shift sits on a single year of age.
Source: Mediemyndigheten, Ungar & medier 2025 Read more →You can now send Barnluren as a gift. A safe, screen-free way to help a child stay close to the people who love them — set up in minutes, with nothing for you to configure.
Read more →Folkhälsomyndigheten's advice to wait until 13 before giving a child their own smartphone raises an important question: how can children gain more independence without needing a smartphone?
Source: Folkhälsomyndigheten Read more →Bringing hardware you designed from the ground up to life for the first time is a fantastic feeling!
Read more →After giving every five-year-old an iPad in 2016, Norway saw reading scores plummet. Now the country is on a mission to reverse the damage.
Source: The Times Read more →Insights on how important relationships are to our health and mental well being and the role of simply talking in building these relationships.
Read more →A growing number of families are turning to landline phones and screenless devices as an alternative to giving children smartphones.
Source: Sherwood News Read more →
