ANY parent will know just how hard it can be to get children off their phones. But dad-of-two Mick Becker doesn’t need to worry about tech addiction as he raises his kids on a boat, where they go with "very limited data" for long periods of time. Before they had children, Mick and his partner Laura, also known as Lozi, would travel for six months each year, working the rest of the time.
Both from Australia, the pair would commonly travel around Asia - to places like Indonesia and Thailand. But after Laura unexpectedly fell pregnant during their travels, they decided to raise their children on a boat. The couple even gave their daughter the middle name Oceania - "because that's where she's from.
" After many years of living on a catamaran, even raising babies on the boat, Mick said the family "craved" society - so they decided to move back to land and open a café. But they missed the open sea and returned to living on a boat, with Mick discussing all on a 2022 episode of the Off The Grid Podcast . He loves boat living because "you're never bored.
" "You've got freedom. It’s volatile and beautiful and scary all at the same time," he adds. On a boat, he can spend more time with his kids too.
When he was living on land, he said he was “never 100% present.” Constantly busy, he would “have to cut off [his children’s stories] after 15 minutes” to get back to work – adding that “it does get a bit old.” He says he worried that “time just slips by and you’re blo.
