Phil McGraw Quotes

I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, grandpa, 'cause you won't get it."

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows.

I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

My little sister, who is four, can work my mom's iPhone better than she can.

I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.

All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it.

On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.

You can go to the Internet and know more than your mom in two seconds. It's crazy how fast teenagers have knowledge and information these days. So, I think it's harder to say, 'Your father and I know more than you.'

Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.

I've never sent an email in my life. My kids laugh. I often hand the phone to them and say, 'Can you text this message to somebody.' I don't even have a computer on my desk.

Computer literacy is a fundamental civil right.

Rules rooting in sweeping moral judgment don’t generally work in family law for the same reason that they don’t work for families. Kids love and need the parents they have, not necessarily the parents we love.

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land And don’t criticize what you don’t understand Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command

The most dramatic effect of digital libraries will not be on us, the well-booked, but on the billions of people worldwide who are underserved by ordinary paper books.

You should have access to ideas and information regardless of your age. If anyone is going to limit or guide a young person, it should be the parent or guardian — and only the parent or guardian.

Our kids now face pressures that didn’t exist when I was growing up…. As parents, it’s very hard to help our children because their experiences are so different to anything we had.

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.

If getting young people computer-literate through putting school systems online is a no-brainer, at least in retrospect, getting older people and those in rural areas online can be a tougher nut to crack.

When I was first elected to the Colorado State Board of Education in 2000, we had to carry a big binder filled with hundreds of pages to every meeting. By 2004, the State Board had gone paperless. We even persuaded the less-tech-savvy members to use laptops to pull up their information during meetings.

My oldest grew up on Disney, but my youngest is all about Snapchat and YouTube.

Technology is something you have to embrace because technology is part of our generation. Digital natives, for instance, are people who grew up in a world that always had the Internet and who always had smartphones. Millennials aren't too far behind: my generation of people, who were in the mix of the Internet when it first came out.

I'm of the older generation. I accept the new technology, but I try to keep a bit of that away.