{"id":15657,"date":"2024-08-25T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/25\/ee-warns-parents-against-giving-children-under-11-a-smartphone\/"},"modified":"2024-08-25T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T10:39:00","slug":"ee-warns-parents-against-giving-children-under-11-a-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/25\/ee-warns-parents-against-giving-children-under-11-a-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guidance comes after calls for a total ban for the under-16s and a statuary ban on mobile phone use in schools<\/p>\n<p>Primary school children should not be given smartphones by their parents, one of the UK\u2019s largest mobile phone operators has warned.<\/p>\n<p>EE is advising parents that children under 11 should be given old-fashioned brick or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2024\/apr\/27\/the-boring-phone-stressed-out-gen-z-ditch-smartphones-for-dumbphones\">dumb<\/a>\u201d phones that only allow them to call or text instead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/aug\/25\/ee-warns-parents-against-giving-children-under-11-a-smartphone\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/72592ac3761e742f0e817d5906fcb307cd200f90\/0_75_4500_2701\/master\/4500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d8d45decb0c8916ed7e351667fb5c586\" title=\"EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone\" \/>Guidance comes after calls for a total ban for the under-16s and a statuary ban on mobile phone use in schools<br \/>\nPrimary school children should not be given smartphones by their parents, one of the UK\u2019s largest mobile phone operators has warned.<br \/>\nEE is advising parents that children under 11 should be given old-fashioned brick or \u201cdumb\u201d phones that only allow them to call or text instead. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guidance comes after calls for a total ban for the under-16s and a statuary ban on mobile phone use in schools Primary school children should not be given smartphones by their parents, one of the UK\u2019s largest mobile phone operators has warned. EE is advising parents that children under 11 should be given old-fashioned brick &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/25\/ee-warns-parents-against-giving-children-under-11-a-smartphone\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15658,"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\/15657"}],"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=15657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}