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A Day in the Life of a Screen-Free Child

April 14th, 2026 | 7 min read

By Nadya Williams

Two years ago, I wrote a piece for Mere Orthodoxy, “Homeschooling, Luddite Style.” At the time, screens in schools were only beginning to make alarmed headlines, and many parents seemed either to be in denial about the seriousness of it all, or perhaps just resigned to it. Indeed, one classical educator who criticized my piece at the time said that I was overly naïve and idealistic in condemning the use of technology in education.

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Nadya Williams

Nadya Williams is the Books Editor at Mere Orthodoxy. She holds a PhD in Classics from Princeton University and is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church; Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity; and Christians Reading Classics (forthcoming Zondervan Academic, 2025). She and her husband Dan joyfully live and homeschool in Ashland, Ohio.