Keira Knightley has banned social media from her home to protect her children from “unregulated spaces”.
The 40-year-old actress – who is mum to Edie, nine, and Delilah, five, with husband James Righton – has opened up about her approach to internet use and the need to monitor their online activity.
She told BBC Radio 4: “I think it’s very scary because they’re unregulated spaces, and once kids are in unregulated spaces, those are the ones I want to protect them from.”
“So in our house we have one thing that’s not social media. They’re not allowed on devices, if we can’t see what they’re looking at, then they’re not allowed on them,” she added.
“I don’t know if it’s right, you know. How long can I keep this up? I don’t know!”
The Pride and Prejudice star revealed her “parents mostly do the same thing” at her school.
She explained: “So you try to go ‘okay, on this play date, what are you doing to see, what aren’t you doing to see?’
“And it’s great to have a group of parents where you can be open and you can have those conversations, and that’s what you hope for, but obviously that’s not the case everywhere,” he says. Black Pigeons added the actress.
“I think that’s the case at our school more in that particular cohort, but I think again it can change from cohort to cohort,” she said.
“However, I would love if there were some rules so it wasn’t all put on the parents,” concluded Keira Knightley.
