The house looks like it was staged for sale, not a place anyone lives.
If you want grounded kids, and can afford it, get them into horses and ponies.
The kids I see around barns all have smartphones, but don't use them for timepass.
That depends. The rich kids with horses are very much on their phones and filling their Insta with pictures. They're usually boarded at full care barns and don't have to do the work. I can see it usually working as you describe for the middle class kids.
Horses? That is a very peculiar activity on which to focus, no? Kids playing any sport or painting or any of a zillion other things also aren't on phones while doing them.
depends on what they meant. If they meant owning a pony / horse, that is a BIG time commitment for a live animal and i can certainly see how that guarantees reduced screen time. If they meant taking weekly lessons, then idk what they mean lol. For that kind of activity you just show up and ride the horse, no caretaking needed. Similar to play sport in a facility.
Sport or painting is something you can easily change their mind about on a whim, especially at a young age.
> global asset management firm that specializes in helping affluent and high net worth individuals, families, and institutions invest their capital around the world.
The design of the house screams to me one of two possible things:
a) "We are new money people who paid some interior designer to trawl through a bunch of "high end" furniture stores and buy what we think looks like classy, expensive, European style furniture and home decorations"
or
b) "We bought all this stuff we think looks high-class on credit in an attempt to look impressive, but in reality we are living in a massive pile of debt. As of right now we're doing OK keeping our heads above water".
Or some combination of the two.
Both of which match with the weird "wealth management" style/presentation of the website.
Now this is just my personal bias showing as someone who has architects in the family, and having seen a lot, but people who've come into money and want to buy a bunch of furniture/house decorations to look "high class" will often go a few possible very predictable ways, following some well known tropes.
One you've got the "dark oak, heavy wood, victorian/edwardian era looking furniture" motif for cabinets, dining tables, chairs, etc. This will often by seen with weird heavy-framed oil paintings of random things that an American might think would be hanging on the wall in an English country manor house.
Anoher possibility you've got is the bright white minimalist glass luxury approach, here's a google image search for "all white glass minimalist luxury living room":
A third possibility, and this is more regionally dependent, is you get people who hire an interior designer to make their space look like a luxury/rich peoples' ranch or fly-in fishing lodge. Basically same idea as the main house living room set for the TV show Yellowstone. This will commonly be seen in US western states and vacation-home destinations like Whistler.
There are also Texan and midwest specific derivatives of the "yellow stone tv show living room set" design approach, which will be seen throughout TX and the midwest.
If you want grounded kids, and can afford it, get them into horses and ponies. The kids I see around barns all have smartphones, but don't use them for timepass.