{"id":16349,"date":"2024-10-26T17:39:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T15:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/26\/why-you-should-give-your-child-a-dumbphone-if-you-want-them-to-be-smarter-torsten-bell\/"},"modified":"2024-10-26T17:39:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T15:39:13","slug":"why-you-should-give-your-child-a-dumbphone-if-you-want-them-to-be-smarter-torsten-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/26\/why-you-should-give-your-child-a-dumbphone-if-you-want-them-to-be-smarter-torsten-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should give your child a dumbphone if you want them to be smarter | Torsten Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research reveals how app usage affects grades, adding to parents\u2019 worries about mental health<\/p>\n<p>First, the good news. We middle-aged Brits are no longer condemned to the conversation- and soul-destroying monomania of debating house prices.<\/p>\n<p>Less good is what has displaced\u00a0it \u2013 an epidemic of angst about when to allow teenagers a mobile, and what kind. I\u2019m in the \u201cvery late and a brick\u201d camp, but parents end up discussing the options for a smartphone-free childhood, inevitably, on WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/oct\/26\/children-dumbphones-smartphones-app-usage-research\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1acdcb308bd11f5a7f5888174d2b5dc16b85ec0b\/0_0_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=257c964e4cd4d148a1e5ca07a0dd5758\" title=\"Why you should give your child a dumbphone if you want them to be smarter | Torsten Bell\" \/>New research reveals how app usage affects grades, adding to parents\u2019 worries about mental health<br \/>\nFirst, the good news. We middle-aged Brits are no longer condemned to the conversation- and soul-destroying monomania of debating house prices.<br \/>\nLess good is what has displaced\u00a0it \u2013 an epidemic of angst about when to allow teenagers a mobile, and what kind. I\u2019m in the \u201cvery late and a brick\u201d camp, but parents end up discussing the options for a smartphone-free childhood, inevitably, on WhatsApp. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research reveals how app usage affects grades, adding to parents\u2019 worries about mental health First, the good news. We middle-aged Brits are no longer condemned to the conversation- and soul-destroying monomania of debating house prices. Less good is what has displaced\u00a0it \u2013 an epidemic of angst about when to allow teenagers a mobile, and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/26\/why-you-should-give-your-child-a-dumbphone-if-you-want-them-to-be-smarter-torsten-bell\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why you should give your child a dumbphone if you want them to be smarter | Torsten Bell<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16350,"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\/16349"}],"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=16349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}