“They’re getting filthy.

They go outside, they play, they dig [and] they climb trees.”

The couple had their first child, a daughter named Helen, in January 2018.

Ben and Erin Napier in a still from “Home Town”

A few years later, the duo welcomed their second kid, their daughter Mae, in 2021.

“We don’t want our kids to be disconnected,” the HGTV star explained in her essay.

“‘Yeah, that is what I use it for,'” Napier answered.

A rear view of the Napier children in a doorway

“‘But phones also have a bad place, a scary place that I want to protect you from.

You don’t need to see the scary things.'”

Top down view of the Napier children painting together