Articles about children, communication, and family connection.
On 16–18 October Barnluren is at the Underbara barn fair at Stockholmsmässan. Come and make a call on a real Cobra phone from 1956, join the Cobra Duel and see how a child calls grandma without a mobile.
Read more →Wearable trackers and home phones look like one product category. They are opposite interventions in a child's development.
Read more →Two camps, the same data, opposite conclusions about screens and children's health. We read the studies from both sides. The fight is real, but five things everyone agrees on, and they are enough to wait.
Read more →We wrote the software that carries your child's calls and we run it on our own exchange in Helsinki. Here is exactly what we know, what we don't, and the parts that aren't flattering.
Read more →Seven friends in one primary school class in Stockholm each got a Barnluren. That very first weekend one of the boys picked up the handset himself, called three friends — and a little while later the match was on.
Read more →The phone that was built to last fifty years can dial grandma again. The Barnluren adapter now understands the rotary dial, so Dialog, Cobra and Diavox phones work as a child's own phone. Here are the phones, country by country, and what it takes.
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.
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