Hugh Grant, against the absurd rules in the private schools of the children: “I am only yet another angry parent who fights the eternal, exhausting and depressing battle to remove children from the screens”

Usually Hugh Grant He does not like to speak with the press, dedicate himself to public releases and – recently – appears in an ever less number of films. Open up to the private individual, then, is off limits. Instead a The Telegraph It has vented unusually for its standards by criticizing what in his opinion are the absurd rules of the privileged private schools to which he enrolled his own five children. With the Swedish producer Anna Eberstein, his wife since 2018, has three children: John, 12 years old, Lulu, 9, and Blue, 6. Two other children, Tabitha (13 years old) and Felix (11)were born from the previous relationship with Tinglan Hong.

Everything starts from device From which it is difficult to remove the offspring: “I am only yet another angry parent,” he said, “that he fights the eternal, exhausting and depressing battle to remove children from the screens”.

The artist participated in an event aimed at encouraging students to an outdoor life, healthier and more free. The appointment was organized by the Association Close Screens, Open Minds At the Knightsbridge School in London by two American psychologists, Jonathan Haidt and Sophie Winkleman (second cousin of King Carlo III). The first is also the author of the lucky book The anxious generation (Rizzoli)for a long time at the top of the ranking of the essays of New York Times, And for some time it is fighting for the use of smartphones by students under 14 and social networks under 16 (as also asks for The petition of Italian expertsfrom the pedagogue Daniele Novara to the psychotherapist Alberto Pellai).

Grant has boiled the rules of institutes as “pathetic” As for the regulation of the use of the screens, indeed by returning the dose saying that they happen in these «rather ridiculous private schools. They are the ones to tell the guys not to go to play out because it rains or not climbing because there is the wind. It seems pathetic to me ».

And continues to say that honestly the fact that the institutes provide giving tools the latest technology updates It does not compensate at all. According to him, politicians are afraid of thinking minds and consequently to lose their business, so they do not deal enough with technological issues in educational institutions.

To the mothers who reproach him to be old replies with the usual sarcasm: «Of course, if my six -year -old daughter jumps in my arms in what he calls The embrace of the chimpanzeesometimes he comes to cry », but apart from the ailments and the greatest sleepiness the 63 -year -old claims his lucidity of thought and demands it for his boys.

Not to mention the fact that even the immigration office asked the children if he was their true dad. Also in that case, the allusion to age sent it to it on everyone, counting that it happened at the London airport of Heathrow and that everyone has the same surname on their passport.