Overview

• Savannah Guthrie said on Jenna & Friends that she drafted a contract her daughter Vale signed before getting an iCloud account, explicitly permitting parents to read her messages.
• The rules instruct Vale to avoid sending anything she wouldn’t want grandparents to see or printed on a front page, with Guthrie reserving the right to check texts.
• Guthrie said she rarely looks at the messages because she trusts her daughter, adding that she dislikes the term “snooping” and prefers to call it “looking” or “parenting.”
• Her children do not have smartphones, Vale borrows her mother’s phone for communications, and Guthrie indicated her stance could shift after age 16.
• She coordinates with other parents in a WhatsApp chat labeled Moms Strike Back and has previously promoted Jonathan Haidt’s recommendations such as no smartphones before high school and no social media before 16.