{"id":10269,"date":"2023-06-03T08:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T06:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/03\/much-easier-to-say-no-irish-town-unites-in-smartphone-ban-for-young-children\/"},"modified":"2023-06-03T08:38:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T06:38:02","slug":"much-easier-to-say-no-irish-town-unites-in-smartphone-ban-for-young-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/03\/much-easier-to-say-no-irish-town-unites-in-smartphone-ban-for-young-children\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Much easier to say no\u2019: Irish town unites in smartphone ban for young children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents and schools across Greystones adopt voluntary \u2018no-smartphone code\u2019 in bid to curb peer pressure<\/p>\n<p>On the principle of strength in numbers, parents in the Irish town of Greystones have banded together to collectively tell their children they cannot have a smartphone until secondary school.<\/p>\n<p>Parents\u2019 associations across the district\u2019s eight primary schools have adopted a no-smartphone code to present a united front against children\u2019s lobbying.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jun\/03\/much-easier-to-say-no-irish-town-unites-in-smartphone-ban-for-young-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6164a0aa5118909b52fc2fd6c6fe83b47ae6eebd\/0_140_4256_2553\/master\/4256.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=16a831a18f5767363422bb2599114bba\" title=\"\u2018Much easier to say no\u2019: Irish town unites in smartphone ban for young children\" \/>Parents and schools across Greystones adopt voluntary \u2018no-smartphone code\u2019 in bid to curb peer pressure<br \/>\nOn the principle of strength in numbers, parents in the Irish town of Greystones have banded together to collectively tell their children they cannot have a smartphone until secondary school.<br \/>\nParents\u2019 associations across the district\u2019s eight primary schools have adopted a no-smartphone code to present a united front against children\u2019s lobbying. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents and schools across Greystones adopt voluntary \u2018no-smartphone code\u2019 in bid to curb peer pressure On the principle of strength in numbers, parents in the Irish town of Greystones have banded together to collectively tell their children they cannot have a smartphone until secondary school. Parents\u2019 associations across the district\u2019s eight primary schools have adopted &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/03\/much-easier-to-say-no-irish-town-unites-in-smartphone-ban-for-young-children\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Much easier to say no\u2019: Irish town unites in smartphone ban for young children<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}