In fact, I am what they call a late adopter. I didn’t get a cell phone until the fall of 2003
Excuse me, what? That's late? Don't make me feel old, lady.
But also, she has two children and seems to be practising digital abstention with them. IMO that's going to be as useful as sexual abstention is: not very.
Education and practice are the best form of prevention, I think. When they one day have full access to a phone they bought with their own money and are untethered from their mother, they won't be prepared to handle the digital drugs inflicted upon them.
Also, it seems as if she equates iphones to phones in general; as if iphones are the generic term and everything else is specific. A little worrying.