{"id":14759,"date":"2024-06-08T06:38:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T04:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/they-give-us-liberty-with-less-anxiety-a-teenager-a-parent-and-a-teacher-on-smartphones-for-under-14s-panel\/"},"modified":"2024-06-08T06:38:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T04:38:18","slug":"they-give-us-liberty-with-less-anxiety-a-teenager-a-parent-and-a-teacher-on-smartphones-for-under-14s-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/they-give-us-liberty-with-less-anxiety-a-teenager-a-parent-and-a-teacher-on-smartphones-for-under-14s-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They give us liberty with less anxiety\u2019: A teenager, a parent and a teacher on smartphones for under-14s | panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After plans to make St Albans the first smartphone-free city for children under 14, our panellists discuss potential benefits and drawbacks<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t mind if it was only in St Albans that headteachers want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northwooduk.com\/st-albans-estate-agents\/articles\/st-albans-wants-to-be-first-smartphone-free-city-for-under-14s\/#:~:text=St%20Albans%20is%20striving%20to,the%20devices%20for%20their%20children\">create a smartphone-free city for under-14s<\/a>. I can take reasonable steps not to live there. But banning phones for young people is raised all the time, and it\u2019s the lazy way out. There are noticeable negative effects of extensive internet use: I\u2019m 16, and in the middle of GCSEs \u2013 if I could get back all the revision time I\u2019ve lost on TikTok, believe me, I would.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/article\/2024\/jun\/08\/smartphones-under-14s-st-albans-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5d4a3b14771a46ecc1cd5c51a05f9ad681c71a83\/0_0_2560_1536\/master\/2560.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=674744f55d58a5c87415d13ac526efdf\" title=\"\u2018They give us liberty with less anxiety\u2019: A teenager, a parent and a teacher on smartphones for under-14s | panel\" \/>After plans to make St Albans the first smartphone-free city for children under 14, our panellists discuss potential benefits and drawbacks<br \/>\nI wouldn\u2019t mind if it was only in St Albans that headteachers want to create a smartphone-free city for under-14s. I can take reasonable steps not to live there. But banning phones for young people is raised all the time, and it\u2019s the lazy way out. There are noticeable negative effects of extensive internet use: I\u2019m 16, and in the middle of GCSEs \u2013 if I could get back all the revision time I\u2019ve lost on TikTok, believe me, I would. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After plans to make St Albans the first smartphone-free city for children under 14, our panellists discuss potential benefits and drawbacks I wouldn\u2019t mind if it was only in St Albans that headteachers want to create a smartphone-free city for under-14s. I can take reasonable steps not to live there. But banning phones for young &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/they-give-us-liberty-with-less-anxiety-a-teenager-a-parent-and-a-teacher-on-smartphones-for-under-14s-panel\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018They give us liberty with less anxiety\u2019: A teenager, a parent and a teacher on smartphones for under-14s | panel<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14760,"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\/14759"}],"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=14759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}