{"id":16897,"date":"2024-12-17T10:38:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T09:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/if-youve-got-children-you-need-to-watch-swiped-and-see-how-sick-their-phones-are-making-them-simon-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T10:38:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T09:38:30","slug":"if-youve-got-children-you-need-to-watch-swiped-and-see-how-sick-their-phones-are-making-them-simon-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/if-youve-got-children-you-need-to-watch-swiped-and-see-how-sick-their-phones-are-making-them-simon-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve got children, you need to watch Swiped \u2013 and see how sick their phones are making them | Simon Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The terrible toll that smartphones are taking on young people is now undeniable. We need to start talking about a ban<\/p>\n

Every parent of a school-age child should watch Swiped<\/a>, the Channel 4 documentary on smartphones shown last week. It was devastating. It told of an Essex secondary school\u2019s experiment in response to what it saw as a rise in anxiety and stress among its 11-year-olds. A group of them agreed to surrender their phones<\/a> for three weeks.<\/p>\n

The parents\u2019 stories were familiar \u2013 of children unable to make eye contact with adults, no longer chatting with ease, spending hours alone and staying awake into the small hours. Some spent five, six, even nine hours a day on their phones. They made \u201cfriends\u201d with total strangers, received hate mail, suffered panic attacks, went from normal to self-harm. Surveys claim<\/a> a quarter of British 11-year-olds have now watched online pornography. One child died in tragic circumstances closely linked to their social media use.<\/p>\n

Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n

Continue reading…<\/a>
\nThe terrible toll that smartphones are taking on young people is now undeniable. We need to start talking about a ban
\nEvery parent of a school-age child should watch Swiped, the Channel 4 documentary on smartphones shown last week. It was devastating. It told of an Essex secondary school\u2019s experiment in response to what it saw as a rise in anxiety and stress among its 11-year-olds. A group of them agreed to surrender their phones for three weeks.
\nThe parents\u2019 stories were familiar \u2013 of children unable to make eye contact with adults, no longer chatting with ease, spending hours alone and staying awake into the small hours. Some spent five, six, even nine hours a day on their phones. They made \u201cfriends\u201d with total strangers, received hate mail, suffered panic attacks, went from normal to self-harm. Surveys claim a quarter of British 11-year-olds have now watched online pornography. One child died in tragic circumstances closely linked to their social media use.
\nSimon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The terrible toll that smartphones are taking on young people is now undeniable. We need to start talking about a ban Every parent of a school-age child should watch Swiped, the Channel 4 documentary on smartphones shown last week. It was devastating. It told of an Essex secondary school\u2019s experiment in response to what it …<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve got children, you need to watch Swiped \u2013 and see how sick their phones are making them | Simon Jenkins<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16898,"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\/16897"}],"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=16897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}